Palestine Liberation Organization
Militant and political organization
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| February 2025 | PFLP-GC announced the election of Anwar Raja and Ramez Mustafa as new assistant secretary-generals, which sparked protests in Yarmouk Camp due to Raja's controversial past. |
| 2024 | After the fall of the Assad regime, the Syrian transitional government demanded that Palestinian armed groups, including the PLA, disarm and dissolve their military formations. The PLA met at the PLO headquarters in Damascus, expressing support for Syrian unity and condemning the Israeli invasion of Syria. |
| December 21 2024 | Lebanese Armed Forces peacefully occupied most of the PFLP-GC's bases in Lebanon, at the villages of Sultan Yacoub and Hechmech. |
| April 2024 | Amnesty International released a report including a section on Women's and Girls' Rights in Palestinian territories, highlighting ongoing human rights concerns. |
| October 2023 | Israel suspended the transfer of all tax revenue funds following the Hamas-led attack on Israel. |
| September 28 2023 | Palestine was approved as an observer state to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by a majority vote of the Agency's members. |
| 2022 | Palestine was granted observer state status to participate in the World Trade Organization's twelfth Ministerial Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| December 23 2021 | Around 125 Palestinian civilians sustained light to moderate injuries during clashes with Israeli occupation forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported 42 Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated steel rounds, and 83 suffered from tear gas inhalation. A girl was treated for shock after a violent Israeli settler attack on her family's home. |
| December 11 2021 | 2021 Palestinian local elections were held. |
| October 20 2021 | A Palestinian woman was held in detention and prevented from breastfeeding her baby by Israeli police officers. |
| September 10 2021 | Palestinians held rallies across West Bank in solidarity with the escaped Gilboa prisoners, following calls from Hamas and other Palestinian factions for a 'day of rage'. |
| September 6 2021 | Six Palestinian prisoners escaped from Gilboa Prison, a maximum security prison in northern Israel. |
| July 2021 | Talal Naji succeeded Ahmed Jibril as the secretary-general of the PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC), marking a leadership transition in the organization. |
| July 2021 | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas postponed the planned legislative elections, creating political tension and uncertainty in the Palestinian territories. |
| July 7 2021 | Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa was demolished by Israel again for at least the third time. |
| May 2021 | During Nakba Day protest in Haifa, Tal'at mobilized a significant demonstration during Operation 'Guardian of the Walls', with women comprising 80% of participants despite facing police violence, right-wing counter-protests, and suppression threats. |
| May 21 2021 | A ceasefire was brokered, ending 11 days of intense conflict between Hamas and Israel, which resulted in significant casualties and infrastructure damage in Gaza. |
| May 11 2021 | Hamas launched another 130-rocket barrage to Israel. A total of 28 Palestinians had been killed since the start of the escalating crisis between Palestine and Israel. |
| May 10 2021 | Large-scale military confrontations began between Israeli forces and Hamas, with rocket attacks from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes in response. |
| May 9 2021 | Clashes intensified as protests spread across major cities in Israel and Palestinian territories. Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa mosque, injuring more than 300 Palestinians. |
| May 8 2021 | Second night of clashes in Al-Aqsa Mosque injured 100 Palestinians. |
| May 7 2021 | At least 200 Palestinians and 6 Israeli police officers were injured following clashes in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after reports of Israel's intention to evict Palestinians from land claimed by Jewish settlers. |
| May 6 2021 | Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in West Bank in response to a prior drive-by shooting of three Israelis. Multiple Palestinian factions, including Hamas members, rejected President Abbas' election postponement. |
| April 27 2021 | Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to postpone the 2021 Palestinian parliamentary elections. |
| April 23 2021 | More than 100 people were injured after clashes in East Jerusalem. |
| February 4 2021 | Israel razed Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa for the second time, with the Israeli rights group B'Tselem calling the demolition 'unusually broad' and accusing Israel of seeking to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities. |
| November 2020 | Palestinian Authority rejected the United Arab Emirates-Israel normalization agreement and condemned the diplomatic normalization between the two countries. |
| November 2020 | Palestinian Authority continued to struggle with economic challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing political tensions. |
| November 9 2020 | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) runs out of money, forcing its 28,000 staff to take pay cuts. |
| November 6 2020 | 73 Palestinians, including 41 children, are displaced after the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa is razed in the largest demolition in years, with Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh accusing Israel of timing the demolition to coincide with the US election day. |
| September 2020 | Palestinian factions began discussions about reconciliation and potential unity government following tensions between Hamas and Fatah. |
| September 2020 | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the termination of all agreements with Israel and the United States in response to proposed Israeli annexation plans. |
| September 24 2020 | Fatah and Hamas announce an agreement to hold elections within six months, marking the first potential election since 2006. |
| September 22 2020 | Palestine withdraws from its current Arab League meetings chairmanship in protest of UAE and Bahrain's normalization of ties with Israel. |
| September 13 2020 | Israel approves construction of 980 new settlement units in the Efrat settlement south of Bethlehem. |
| September 10 2020 | Germany pledges 17 million Euros to Palestine through UNDP to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| September 8 2020 | Benjamin Netanyahu apologizes to the family of Yaqoub Abu al-Qi'an, a Bedouin schoolteacher killed by Israeli police in 2017 after being falsely accused of being an ISIS terrorist. |
| August 29 2020 | A tragic incident occurs in Am'ari refugee camp near Ramallah, where gunmen firing celebratory wedding shots injure two sisters, with one fatally wounded and pronounced dead upon hospital arrival. |
| August 26 2020 | Two Palestinian brothers, Bilal and Mohammad Dabash, voluntarily demolish their own houses in Sur Baher to avoid Israeli municipal fines, resulting in the displacement of 11 persons. |
| August 25 2020 | The first COVID-19 case is detected in the general population in Gaza, prompting Hamas to impose a 48-hour curfew to contain the virus spread. |
| August 23 2020 | Israel imposes a ban on all imports to the Gaza strip except food and medical supplies, as part of punitive actions following recent balloon and rocket launches from the enclave. |
| August 17 2020 | Israeli military court releases Mahmoud Nawajaa, General Coordinator of the BDS movement, after 19 days of detention, with Nawajaa stating the arrest was an attempt to obstruct and intimidate BDS movement activists. |
| August 16 2020 | Israel bans Jerusalem's governor Adnan Ghaith from entering the West Bank for six months. |
| August 13 2020 | Palestinian organizations criticize the United Arab Emirates for signing a peace agreement with Israel. Hamas calls it a 'treacherous stab', and the Palestinian Authority recalls its ambassador to the UAE. |
| August 13 2020 | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency in response to the rising COVID-19 cases and announced further preventive measures. |
| August 13 2020 | Palestinian leadership rejected the UAE-Israel normalization agreement, viewing it as a betrayal of Palestinian national interests. |
| August 11 2020 | Egypt opens the Rafah Border Crossing for the first time in five months, allowing only Palestinians with foreign passports, foreign residency permits, or emergency medical needs to cross, with mandatory three-week quarantine for returnees. |
| August 7 2020 | Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission releases a report claiming Israeli authorities demolished 313 homes, issued 129 eviction notices, and documented 419 settler attacks that injured 78 Palestinians. |
| August 6 2020 | World Bank grants Palestine $30 million in aid to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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