1956: Suez, the Sinai Campaign, and the Kafr Qasim Massacre
October 29, 1956: Two Wars Begin — One Visible, One Hidden On the evening of 29 October 1956, Israeli paratroopers dropped into the Sinai Peninsula, opening Israel’s military campaign coordinated with Britain and France against Nasser’s Egypt. The world’s attention turned to the Suez Canal. Simultaneously, in the small Palestinian village of Kafr Qasim inside […]
Sabra and Shatila, September 1982: The Massacre Inside the Israeli Cordon
The Setting: Palestinian Refugees in Beirut’s Southern Camps By the summer of 1982, Sabra and Shatila were dense, impoverished neighborhoods on the southern edge of Beirut — home to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees, many of them or their families displaced from Palestine in 1948. Shatila had been established as a formal refugee camp […]
The Palestinian Diaspora: Where 7 Million Palestinians Live and Why
Where do 7 million Palestinians in the diaspora live? From Chile to the US to Brazil, this guide maps the shatat and why Palestinians left.
The Nakba of 1948: What Happened, Village by Village
The Nakba 1948 village by village: how 530+ Palestinian communities were depopulated, demolished, or erased between December 1947 and 1949.
The First Intifada (1987–1993): Causes, Tactics, and Lasting Legacy
The First Intifada (1987–1993): explore the causes, tactics, and lasting legacy of the Palestinian uprising that changed the conflict forever.
The British Mandate and the Balfour Declaration: How 67 Words Changed a Land
How the 67-word Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised a Jewish homeland in Palestine—and what it cost the people already living there.