Palestine
Where this hall's record is missing: thin coverage, events mentioned but not yet added, and evidence that exists but is withheld.
Open and sealed
Thin record
1 Aug 1914 to 9 Dec 1917Life inside Palestine during the First World War
Conscription, requisitions, hunger and the 1915 locust plague are barely recorded here yet. Salim Tamari's Year of the Locust, built on the diary of the Jerusalem soldier Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman, is a place to start.
Mentioned but missing
1 Dec 1917 to 31 Dec 1917British capture of Jerusalem, December 1917
Later documents rest on it, but it is not yet an event on the timeline. It needs a primary source.
Thin record
27 Dec 2008 to 26 Aug 2014The Gaza wars of 2008–2009, 2012 and 2014
Three major rounds of fighting between the start of the blockade and the 2018 protests are not on the timeline yet.
Thin record
7 Oct 2023Settler and army violence in the West Bank since October 2023
OCHA publishes running counts of settler attacks and of Palestinians killed and displaced in the West Bank. Each incident, with its source, belongs here.
Mentioned but missing
26 Jan 2024 to 31 Jan 2024Israel's allegations against UNRWA staff and the suspension of donor funding, January 2024
The UN investigation and the independent review of UNRWA answer these allegations, but the allegations themselves are not yet an event on the timeline.
Sealed
30 Nov 1947 to 31 Dec 1949Arab state archives on the 1948 war
A 2002 review of the field noted that no Arab state had opened its archives on the war to researchers, beyond rare authorised access.
Sealed
30 Nov 1947 to 31 Dec 1949Israeli 1948 files resealed by the Defense Ministry
Haaretz reported in 2019 that the Defense Ministry's security department removed and resealed archive documents on 1948, including files historians had already cited.
The longest silences
Stretches of a lane with no recorded event, widest first.
84 years with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence and Netanyahu's sixth government is sworn in.
72 years with nothing in Land & people, between Displacement of Palestinian Arabs, 1947–1949 and Settlers attack Huwara after two Israeli brothers are killed.
17 years with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between League of Nations confirms the Mandate for Palestine and Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence.
11 years with nothing in Inside Palestine, between Blockade of Gaza begins after Hamas takes control of the Strip and Photograph of protester Aed Abu Amro at the Gaza fence.
7 years with nothing in Inside Palestine, between Photograph of protester Aed Abu Amro at the Gaza fence and Palestinians killed while seeking food near aid sites and convoys.
3 years with nothing in War & security, between Great March of Return protests along the Gaza fence and Eleven days of hostilities between Israel and armed groups in Gaza.
2 years with nothing in War & security, between Eleven days of hostilities between Israel and armed groups in Gaza and Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
2 years with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between San Remo conference assigns the mandate for Palestine and Churchill White Paper.
2 years with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between Balfour Declaration and King–Crane Commission recommendations.
1 year with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between Sykes–Picot Agreement and Balfour Declaration.
1 year with nothing in Land & people, between Israel tells 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to move south and Israeli operation in northern West Bank refugee camps.
1 year with nothing in War & security, between The 20 living hostages are released and Israel frees 1,968 prisoners and Four people, including a child, killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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