Linda Dayan reports in Haaretz on 23 June 2025: When Israelis received the alert that their airplanes had struck targets in Iran, along with instructions to remain close to shelters in the middle of the night, online searches in Hebrew for shelters spiked significantly. When you search the words “miklat” in Hebrew, “malja’a” in Arabic or […]
Maya Horodniceanu and Nir Hasson report in Haaretz on 6 April 2022: The days when construction in East Jerusalem opened news broadcasts and rocked U.S.-Israeli relations may have passed, but on the ground Jerusalem keeps on morphing: Jewish neighborhoods are being built or planned beyond the Green Line in places like Har Homa, Givat Hamatos, […]
Times of Israel reports, “Palestinian protesters clashed violently with security forces overnight Tuesday as the army surveyed the family home of a Palestinian who killed an IDF soldier, ahead of its demolition. Israel Defense Forces units arrived in the al-Am’ari refugee camp near Ramallah to map the home of Islam Yousef Abu Hamid, who killed Ronen […]
We don’t need to argue about Balfour or show title deeds to prove we exist. We simply need to show the historical maps of Palestine says historian Salman Abu Sitta, who has made this his life’s work. He has had no help or interest from the Palestinian leadership, about which he is scathing. “In the absence of true representation of Palestinians, the Israeli regime has gone wild. It removed every mask from its face. It became openly racist”.
Despite innumerable diplomatic and political reproaches and votes of censure from EU, UN and even US bodies, Israeli encroachment on, and seizure of, Palestinian land has been continuous since 1967 with two breaks: the withdrawal from Gaza, 2005, and the Oslo Accords which made the small enclaves of Areas A and B off-limits to Israelis.
Page last updated 29 Oct 2015 Introduction We offer this series of timelines and maps in order to support this ORIGINS OF AND BACKGROUND TO THE CONFLICT section. Do let us know if you come across others that would be worth linking to. Timelines 1. Chronology from November 1947 to 2006 This chronology, from Avi […]
Many thanks to our friends at ICAHD for these fascinating and enlightening maps which really throw light on the details of the infrastructure of the occupation.
Page last updated 23 Oct 2015 Introduction Israel occupied the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights, in June 1967. Occupations by definition are temporary, yet Israel remains in this “temporary” state after 48 years and counting… Maps provide a graphic introduction to the fragmentation and disruption of […]
Qassam Muaddi reports in Mondoweiss on 23 June 2025 : One underground tunnel will soon be the only connection between 1.5 million Palestinians in the southern West Bank and the rest of the territory. This recently approved infrastructure plan, dubbed the “Fabric of Life” project, would effectively split the West Bank into two. Transportation for Palestinians […]
Nir Hasson writes in Haaretz on 29 May 2025: We have entered the stage of the monstrous. According to humanitarian organizations, the hunger in the Gaza Strip is now acute. Once Israel began blocking the entry of food, no fewer than 10,000 children have deteriorated into malnutrition that requires treatment. The prime minister declared a resumption […]