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Participants Israel • Palestine Liberation Organization
Context Hussein-McMahon correspondence • Palestinian Authority • Oslo Accords • Cairo Agreement

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Map showing Israel and the surrounding region with a green line marking the pre-1967 borders between Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Major cities, neighboring countries, and geographic features such as the Mediterranean Sea, Dead Sea, and Sea of Galilee are labeled.
Map showing the United Nations partition plan for Palestine adopted in 1947, with areas color-coded to indicate proposed Jewish state, Arab state, and a separate Jerusalem district. The map includes key cities and regions, borders with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, and highlights the Mediterranean coast.
Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles enter a city street in Gaza during the Six-Day War, June 6, 1967, with street signs and buildings visible in the background.
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin
Oslo Accords
Thematic map showing Israeli and Palestinian settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with areas shaded to indicate Palestinian autonomous areas under varying degrees of control and Israeli-controlled areas. Purple dots and squares mark Israeli settlements and settlement outposts, while major Palestinian cities and the planned West Bank security fence and concrete wall are also indicated. Insets provide a regional locator and close-up of the Gaza Strip.
Wye River Memorandum
Crowds gather and pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, with the golden Dome of the Rock visible above the stone wall in the background.
The Israeli settlement of Gilo with clusters of white houses and red roofs sits on a hilltop, separated from the foreground by the tall concrete panels of the West Bank barrier.
Discover a historical milestone in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship with the signing of the Declaration of Principles, 1993
The Dome of the Rock explained
The History of the Dome of the Rock
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Key People

Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
president of Palestinian Authority
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas
president of Palestinian Authority
Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II
king of Jordan
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel
Shimon Peres, 2009
Shimon Peres
prime minister and president of Israel