1996 in Palestine

none October 2024 1996 Events in the year 1996 in Palestine. Incumbents President of Palestine – Yasser Arafat President of the Palestinian National Authority – Yasser Arafat Government of Palestine – 1st Government of Palestine (until 17 May) and 2nd Government of Palestine (starting 17 May) Events 5 January – The Mossad assassinates Yahya Ayyash, the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, via a bomb-laden mobile phone. 19 January – Three Hamas members are killed in an attack on an Israeli army roadblock. One Israeli soldier is injured. 20 January – 1996 Palestinian general election: 1996 Palestinian presidential election: Incumbent Palestinian President Yasser Arafat defeats challenger Samiha Khalil, consolidating his position as president.https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/arafat-elected-leader-of-palestine Yasser Arafat elected leader of Palestine 20 January 1996 History https://archive.today/20241013231011/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/arafat-elected-leader-of-palestine 13 October 2024 https://chronology.palestine-studies.org/node/8294 Saturday, January 20, 1996 The Palestine Chronology 20 January 1996 Institute for Palestine Studies 1996 Palestinian legislative election: Fatah wins 50 seats out of 88, becoming the majority party in the Palestinian Legislative Council.https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208732/ Yearbook of the United Nations 1996 - Question of Palestine 31 December 1996 United Nations https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20030224_IB92052_4b5cac8b189c6fa09b2795c041133b0ba1c4da5a.pdf Issue Brief for Congress - Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States 24 February 2003 Congressional Research Service 22 January – Yasser Arafat receives congratulatory phone calls in his Gaza headquarters. U.S. Consul General Edward R. Abington, who visited Arafat there, said their meeting was interrupted by calls from Nelson Mandela and the prime ministers of Turkey and Algeria.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/23/arafat-may-face-power-struggle/c7c3064d-6270-4a06-b50c-1424e549f0e6/ ARAFAT MAY FACE POWER STRUGGLE Gellman Barton 22 January 1996 The Washington Post https://archive.today/20241014074011/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/23/arafat-may-face-power-struggle/c7c3064d-6270-4a06-b50c-1424e549f0e6/ 14 October 2024 12 February – 1996 Palestinian presidential inauguration: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is sworn in to office and begins a new term as President of Palestine, 23 days after the election.https://www.jta.org/archive/arafat-sworn-in-as-president Arafat Sworn in As President 12 February 1996 Jewish Telegraphic Agency https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/13/world/arafat-takes-oath-of-office.html Arafat Takes Oath of Office 13 February 1996 The New York Times https://archive.today/20241013230854/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/13/world/arafat-takes-oath-of-office.html 13 October 2024 25 February – Ashkelon bus station bombing: Killing two Israelis. Hamas claims responsibility for the bombing. 25 February – First Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber blows himself up in a commuter bus in Jerusalem, killing 26 and injuring 80 others. 3 March – Second Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates a bomb on a bus in Jerusalem, killing 19 and injuring six others. 4 March – Dizengoff Center suicide bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates a bomb outside the Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv's largest shopping mall, killing 20 and wounding 75 others, including children celebrating the Jewish Purim holiday. 7 March – The first Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is sworn in and meets for the first time, 47 days after the election. Ahmed Qurei becomes the first Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council.http://www.medea.be/en/countries/occupied-palestinian-territories/palestinian-legislative-council-plc/ Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) https://archive.today/20131220173607/http://www.medea.be/en/countries/occupied-palestinian-territories/palestinian-legislative-council-plc/ 20 December 2013 MEDEA Institute 20 December 2013 24 April – After a two-day meeting in Gaza City, the PNC adopts two resolutions amending the PLO Charter.https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A32276/datastream/OBJ/view/Yasir_Arafat_and_the_PLO_one_month_since_Hebron__An_assessment_of_PLO_compliance_with_the_Hebron_Accord_January_15_____February_15__1997.pdf Yasir Arafat and the PLO, One Month Since Hebron 15 February 1997 Florida Virtual Campus (flvc.org) Zionist Organization of America https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n98/244/84/pdf/n9824484.pdf Letter dated 27 July 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General 27 July 1998 United Nations 9 May – Yasser Arafat announces names of new cabinet ministers.https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/05/09/Arafat-names-26-ministers-to-cabinet/5873831614400/ Arafat names 26 ministers to cabinet Saud Abu Ramadan and Fayeed Abu Shamalla 9 May 1996 UPI https://chronology.palestine-studies.org/node/8222 Thursday, May 9, 1996 The Palestine Chronology 9 May 1996 Institute for Palestine Studies 15 May – Yasser Arafat tells the Palestinian National Council that it might take another week or so before he finalizes the list of portfolio assignments.https://jweekly.com/1996/05/17/mideastreport/ MideastReport 17 May 1996 JWeekly 17 May – 2nd Government of Palestine is sworn in, with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat heading the government.https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/palestine-liberation-organisation-chairman-and-president-of-news-photo/157346466 BIO-ARAFAT-PALESTINIAN CABINET MEMBERS 17 May 1996 Getty Images Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) chairman and President of Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat (c-standing) shown in picture dated 17 May 1996 in Ramallah as he poses with the members of new Palestinian Cabinet. From row, left to right: Abu Ali-Shaheen, Elias Freij, Hassan Tahbub, Abdul Jawad Saleh, Ryad Zanoun, Ali Quasmeh and Abdel Rahman Hamad. Back row, left to right : Azam Al-Ahmad, Maher Al-Masri, Freih Boumedien, Jameel Tarifi, Tayeb Abdel Raheem, Nabil Schaat, Ahmed Qurei alias Abu Alaa, the head of Council, Yasser Arafat, Saeb Erekat, Mohamed Zuhdi Nashashibi, Bashir Barghouthi, Yasser Amr, Yasser Abed Rabo, Sameer Ghoshe and Imad Falugi.https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/palestine/pa.htm Palestinian Authority 19 March 2019 GlobalSecurity.org 24 September – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorize the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem for the Western Wall Tunnel, which prior Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had instructed to be put on hold for the sake of peace.https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/israel-opens-disputed-tunnel Israel Opens Disputed Tunnel Morris Nome Silver, Eric 7 October 1996 Maclean's Magazine 29 July 2009 7 June 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110607134200/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011005 live This sparked violent riots throughout the West Bank and northern Gaza Strip. Over the subsequent three days, 16 Israeli soldiers and about 60 Palestinians were killed in the riots.https://haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtStEngPE.jhtml?itemNo=1069913&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&title=%27Jerusalem%20demolitions%20may%20spark%20repeat%20of%201996%20riots%27&dyn_server=172.20.5.5 https://web.archive.org/web/20140823174149/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/jerusalem-demolitions-may-spark-repeat-of-1996-riots-1.271808 dead August 23, 2014 Jerusalem demolitions may spark repeat of 1996 riots Eldar Akiva 30 July 2009 Haaretz 30 July 2009 11 December – PFLP gunmen attack a car carrying Israeli settlers near the settlement of Bet El, killing a woman and her 12-year-old son. See also 1996 in Israel References 1996 in Palestine Category:Years of the 20th century in Palestine Palestine