On 13 September 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed between Palestinian and Israeli leaders under US auspices. Since then, Israel has put facts on the ground that make a Palestinian state impossible.

The draft includes a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem, annexation of 4.4% of the West Bank territory, and "Arab security presence" in Gaza

As students in Cairo in the 1960s, al-Qaddumi and Yasser Arafat founded the Palestinian Fatah movement and worked with Nasser. To his dying day, he refused to go back home under an Israeli permit

Netanyahu's government will stop at nothing to destroy the group behind 7 October and is prepared to make the Strip uninhabitable. To survive, Hamas only has difficult roads ahead

The Palestinians need and deserve unity, a clear vision, and a feasible long-term strategy. Instead they have rival leaderships both convinced that they are right and the other is wrong.

Lina Soualem's 2023 cinematic masterpiece follows four generations of Palestinian women, with a focus on her and her mother, actress Hiam Abbass. From upheaval and refuge comes serenity and sadness.

The PLO chairman now knows that he must leave Lebanon as his fighters are surrounded by the Israelis. The Syrian president is no friend, but agrees to take them in.

With an eye on the Lebanese presidency, the Phalange commander and sworn enemy of Syria sends secret messages of 'reassurance' to al-Assad. Meanwhile, Damascus refuses to host PLO fighters.

Palestine's UN membership, European recognition, and international judicial actions

Al Majalla begins its five-part series revealing never-before-shared details of Israel's 1982 siege of Beirut and exchanges between Hafez al-Assad and Yasser Arafat