Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timeline

1917 Nov 2 Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 (dated 2 November 1917) was a formal statement of policy by the British government stating that "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishmen...
1919 Jan 3 Faisal-Weizmann Agreement signed
The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement was signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization) as part of th...
1920 Apr 4
to 1920 Apr 7
 Palestine/Nabi Musa riots in Jerusalem
The 1920 Palestine riots, or Nabi Musa riots, were violent Arab pogroms against the Jews in Jerusalem. They took place under British rule through April 4-7, 1920 in and around the Old Cit...
1921 May 1
to 1921 May 7
 Jaffa Riots
The Jaffa riots refers to the riots and killings that took place in the British Mandate of Palestine between 1 and 7 May 1921. On the night before 1 May 1921, the Jewish Communist Part...
1922 British Mandate of Palestine approved
The Palestine Mandate, or Mandate for Palestine, was a League of Nations Mandate drafted by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War and formally approved by t...
1929 Aug Western Wall/Buraq Uprising
The 1929 Palestine riots (also known as the Western Wall Uprising or the Buraq Uprising) refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute bet...
1929 Aug 23
to 1929 Aug 24
 Hebron massacre
The Hebron massacre refers to the mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false ...
1930 Oct 1 Passfield White Paper issued
The Passfield White Paper, issued by the colonel secretary Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb), was a formal statement of British policy in Palestine made in the aftermath of the 1929 riots. The...
1933
to 1945
The Jewish Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as Shoah is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponso...
1936
to 1939
Arab Revolt in Palestine
The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine was an uprising in protest against mass Jewish Immigration, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, by Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine. It should ...
1939 May British Parliament approves The White Paper
The White Paper of 1939, also known as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary who presided over it, was a policy paper issued by the British gov...
1946 Jul 22 King David Hotel bombing
The King David Hotel bombing was an attack by the right-wing Zionist underground movement, the Irgun, on the central offices of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, the Secreta...
1947 Nov 29 United Nations announces a partition plan for Palestine
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) Future Government of Palestine was a plan adopted by a decision of the General Assem...
1947 Nov 30
to 1948 May 14
 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
The 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine lasted from 30 November 1947, the date of the United Nations vote in favour of the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine and the U...
1947 Dec 2
to 1947 Dec 4
 Jerusalem riots
The 1947 Jerusalem Riots occurred following the vote in the UN General Assembly in favour of the 1947 UN Partition Plan on 29 November 1947. The Arab Higher Committee declared a three-...
1947 Dec 30 Haifa Oil Refinery massacre
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre refers to an incident that took place on December 30, 1947. After operatives of the Zionist paramilitary, the Irgun, threw a number of grenades at a crowd of 1...
1948 Feb 22 1948 Ben Yehuda Street bombing
On February 22, 1948, as the conflict over the coming partition of Palestine grew, three British Army trucks led by an armoured car driven by Arab irregulars and British deserters explode...
1948 Apr 5
to 1948 Apr 20
 Operation Nachshon
Operation Nachshon was an Israeli military operation during the 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. Its objective was to open up the Jerusalem road that was blockaded by Palestini...
1948 Apr 9 Deir Yassin massacre
The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab ...
1948 Apr 13 Hadassah medical convoy massacre
The Hadassah medical convoy massacre took place on April 13, 1948, when a convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospit...
1948 May 14 Israel declares independence from Britain
The Israeli Declaration of Independence made on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar, 5708), the day the British Mandate expired, was the official announcement that the new Jewish state named the State of...
1948 May 15
to 1949 Apr 4
 Arab-Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known by the Israelis as the War of Independence and War of Liberation, and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe, was the first in a series of wars fought between...
1948 Jun The Altalena Affair
The Altalena Affair was a violent confrontation that took place in June 1948 between the newly-formed Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun, a paramilitary Jewish group. The confrontation i...
1949 Feb
to 1949 Jul
Armistice agreements signed, West Bank/Gaza divided between Jordan and Egypt
The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The agreements ended the official hostilities of...
1953 Oct Qibya massacre
The Qibya Massacre occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked a Jordanian West Bank village. 69 Palestinians were killed, many while hiding in houses blown u...
1956 Oct
to 1957 Mar
Suez Crisis/Tripartite Aggression
The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956. The attack followed Egypt's dec...
1967
to 1970
War of Attrition
The War of Attrition was a limited war fought between Israel and forces of Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1967 to 1970. It was initiated by Egypt as a way to force I...
1967 Jun 5
to 1967 Jun 10
 The Six-Day War
The Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967 was a war between the Israel army and the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It is also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, t...
1967 Sep 1 Khartoum Resolution issued
Following the 6-day war of 1967, the Israel unity government declared on June 19, 1967 that it was ready to return the Golan Heights to Syria, Sinai to Egypt and most of the West Bank to ...
1968 Mar 21 Battle of Karameh
The Battle of Karameh was fought on March 21, 1968 in the Jordanian town of Karameh between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and a combined force of the Palestine Liberation Organization (...
1970 May 8 Avivim school bus massacre
The Avivim school bus massacre was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on May 8, 1970 in which 12 Israeli civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded. The at...
1970 Sep Black September
September 1970 is known as the Black September in Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events." It was a month when Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan moved ...
1972 May 30 Lod Airport massacre
The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which three members of the Japanese Red Army, on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palest...
1972 Sep 5
4:30AM
to 1972 Sep 6
12:04AM
 Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches killed in Munich massacre
The Munich massacre is an informal name for events occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventu...
1972 Oct 16
to 1979 Jan 22
 Operation "Wrath of God"
Operation Wrath of God, also called Operation Bayonet, was a covert operation directed by Israel and the Mossad to assassinate individuals alleged to have been directly or indirectly invo...
1973 Apr 9
to 1973 Apr 10
 Israeli raid on Lebanon: Operation Spring of Youth
The 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon (code-named Operation Spring of Youth) took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973 when Israel Defense Forces special forces un...
1974 Apr 11 Kiryat Shmona massacre
On 11 April 1974, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the Israeli border from Lebanon. They entered an apartment building in the t...
1974 May 15 Ma'alot massacre
The Ma'alot massacre was an attack on May 15, 1974 in Ma'alot, Israel, in which 22 Israeli high school students, aged 14–16, from Safed were killed by three members of the Democratic Fron...
1975 Feb 22 1975 Ben Yehuda Street bombing
On Friday, July 4, 1975, a refrigerator that had five kilograms of explosives packed into its sides exploded on Zion Square, a main square leading to Ben Yehuda Street and to Jaffa Street...
1975 Mar 4
to 1975 Mar 5
 Savoy Operation
On the night of 4 March 1975 at 11:00 PM, eight Palestinians in two teams landed by boat on the Tel Aviv beach. Shooting and throwing grenades, they captured the Savoy Hotel near the cent...
1976 Jul 4 Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe, also known as the Jonatan Operation or Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a counter-terrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (I...
1978 South Lebanon conflict: Operation Litani
The 1978 South Lebanon conflict (code-named Operation Litani by Israel) was an intervention in Lebanon up to the Litani River carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in 1978. It was a mi...
1978 Mar 11 Coastal Road massacre
The Coastal Road Massacre of 1978 was a Palestinian terrorist attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians were killed, 13 of them chi...
1978 Sep 17 Camp David Accords signed
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Ca...
1979 Mar 26 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty signed
"The treaty demonstrated that Middle East leaders, and not just foreign powers, have the power to transform regional politics." —Kenneth Stein, professor at Emory University and a long-time aid to Jimmy Carter
1982 Jun
to 1985 Jun
1982 Lebanon War
The 1982 Lebanon War, called by Israel the Operation Peace of the Galilee, and later colloquially also known in Israel as the First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defe...
1982 Sep 16
to 1982 Sep 18
 Sabra and Shatila massacre
The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre) was a massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Lebanese Forces Ch...
1985 Dec 27 Rome and Vienna airport attacks
The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on December 27, 1985. On that day at 08:15 GMT, four gunmen walked to the ticket counter of Israel's El...
1987 Dec 8 First Intifada begins
The First Intifada (1987–1993) (also "intifada") was a Palestinian Rebellion against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories. The rebellion began in the Jabalia refugee camp and quick...
1988 Nov 15 State of Palestine proclaimed by Palestinian National Council
A declaration of a "State of Palestine" (Arabic: دولة فلسطين‎) took place in Algiers on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestinian Lib...