1985 in Palestine

none 1985 Events in the year 1985 in Palestine. Incumbents Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization – Yasser Arafat Events January 10 January – The Israeli government announces that it has approved the establishment of six new settlements in the West Bank by the end of the year.11 January 1985 Israeli Blocs Approve 6 West Bank Settlements https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-11-mn-8367-story.html Fisher Dan 31 October 2025 The Los Angeles Times11 January 1985 6 New West Bank Settlements Announced https://www.jta.org/archive/6-new-west-bank-settlements-announced 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency 25 January – Israeli civilian David Pinhas is murdered when Palestinian terrorists throw a Molotov cocktail at the vehicule he was driving near Qalqilya, during a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israeli vehicules in the West Bank.1 February 1985 One Dead in Wave of Attacks On Vehicles in the West Bank https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/01/world/one-dead-in-wave-of-attacks-on-vehicles-in-the-west-bank.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times4 February 1985 AROUND THE WORLD; Jewish Settlers Block Roads in West Bank https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/04/world/around-the-world-jewish-settlers-block-roads-in-west-bank.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times February 4 February – Israeli soldier Aharon Avidar is assassinated in Ramallah by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the first Israeli soldier to be killed while on duty in the West Bank in over a year.5 February 1985 ISRAELI IS KILLED IN WEST BANK https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/05/world/israeli-is-killed-in-west-bank.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times6 February 1985 Terrorist Group Says It Killed Israeli Reserve Soldier in Ramallah https://www.jta.org/archive/terrorist-group-says-it-killed-israeli-reserve-soldier-in-ramallah 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency In the aftermath, the Israeli government pledges to take a harsher line on Palestinian violence.9 February 1985 Israel Warns of Toughened Punishment in Effort to Suppress West Bank Violence https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-09-mn-4050-story.html Fisher Dan 31 October 2025 The Los Angeles Times 5 February – The Israeli military government orders the closure of 150 shops in Ramallah and El Bireh.Ismail Ahmad Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Annual Report (A/40/702) https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-177416/ 2026-06-02 Question of Palestine en-US 11 February – PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan sign the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement.12 February 1985 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein agreed... https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/02/12/Palestinian-leader-Yasser-Arafat-and-Jordans-King-Hussein-agreed/7769477032400/ Kawar Samira 31 October 2025 UPI March 1 March – The Israeli raids the campuses of Birzeit University. Following the raid, the Israeli authorities order the university's new campus closed for two months, saying that the raids had found "inciting material."4 March 1985 West Bank University Closed By Israel Over Banned Books https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/04/world/west-bank-university-closed-by-israel-over-banned-books.html 31 October 2025 The New York TimesApril 1985 Birzeit University News Letter, Issue : 9, April 1985 https://fada.birzeit.edu/handle/20.500.11889/7420 31 December 2024 Birzeit University 21 March – Israeli Minister of Defence Yitzhak Rabin visits the Gaza Strip for the first time as Minister of Defence. During the visit, he tells settlers in Gush Katif that Gaza "must remain an inseparable part of the State of Israel."22 March 1985 Rabin Assures Jewish Settlers in the Gaza Strip That the Territory Will Always Be a Part of Israel https://www.jta.org/archive/rabin-assures-jewish-settlers-in-the-gaza-strip-that-the-territory-will-always-be-a-part-of-israel 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency April 19 April – Bethlehem University is ordered indefinitely closed by the Israeli authorities following an Israeli military raid of the campus.20 April 1985 West Bank Campus Sealed https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/20/world/west-bank-campus-sealed.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times May 21 May – 1150 Palestinians in Israeli custody are released for three Israeli soldiers in the Jibril Agreement. June July 7 July – The Israeli government orders the Austrian Pilgrim Hospice to the Holy Family in the Old City of Jerusalem permanently closed, saying that the hospital's facilities were unable to provide adequate medical care. The closure proves controversial, leading to a general strike by Palestinians in East Jerusalem.25 July 1985 Arab Hospital Protest https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-25-me-5998-story.html 31 October 2025 The Los Angeles Times6 August 1985 Israel Rejects Arab Charges That Closing of Hospice Hospital in Old City Was Political Decision https://www.jta.org/archive/israel-rejects-arab-charges-that-closing-of-hospice-hospital-in-old-city-was-political-decision 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency7 August 1985 Austrian Arab Group Says Hospice Hospital in Old City Will Re-open https://www.jta.org/archive/austrian-arab-group-says-hospice-hospital-in-old-city-will-re-open 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency August 2 August – An-Najah National University is ordered closed for two months by Israeli authorities, who claim that a stash of pro-terrorist propaganda material was found in a search of the student union's office.5 August 1985 Two Move Against Terrorist Activity https://www.jta.org/archive/two-move-against-terrorist-activity 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency 4 August – The Israeli government announces the Iron Fist policy, reinstating a range of security measures in the occupied territories that had lapsed over the last few years, including increased use of administrative detention, deportations, demolitions, house searches, checkpoints, and mass arrests.Summer 1986 The "Iron Fist", October 1985 to January 1986 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536616 Abu Shakrah Jan 31 October 2025 Journal of Palestine Studies5 August 1985 Israel Sets Antiterror Measures https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/08/05/israel-sets-antiterror-measures/9b606ea6-b66f-4426-97c2-f3b5fa4ccac1/ Claiborne William 31 October 2025 The Washington Post11 August 1985 WEST BANK ARABS HAVE RARELY FELT SO CORNERED https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/11/weekinreview/west-bank-arabs-have-rarely-felt-so-cornered.html Friedman Thomas L. 31 October 2025 The New York Times 17 August – The 1985 West Bank land fraud case is revealed.11 December 1985 West Bank Land Fraud https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536772 Ehrlich Ayal 31 October 2025 Koteret Rashit⁩27 August 1985 LAND FRAUD IN WEST BANK PROBED https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/08/27/land-fraud-in-west-bank-probed/ 31 October 2025 The Chicago Tribune 28 August: Israeli authorities begin the first major series of arrests of Palestinians under the Iron Fist policy. Over the next few days, dozens of Palestinians would be placed in administrative detention under suspicion of subversive activity, and roadblocks would be erected across the West Bank.2 September 1985 ISRAELIS DETAIN 14 MORE ARABS IN NEW WEST BANK CRACKDOWN https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/02/world/israelis-detain-14-more-arabs-in-new-west-bank-crackdown.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times September October 1 October – Israel carries out Operation Wooden Leg bombing the PLO headquarters in Hammam Chott, Tunisia. Killing 50 Palestinians and 18 Tunisians and wounding over 100 people.Press Associated 2025-10-02 Tunisians remember the Israeli strike that bound their fate with Palestinians 40 years ago https://www.courthousenews.com/tunisians-remember-the-israeli-strike-that-bound-their-fate-with-palestinians-40-years-ago 2026-06-02 Courthouse News Service en-us November 3 November –Controversy involving Israeli settlers breaks out after the Yesha Council declares its willigness to lead a "nonviolent civil rebellion" if the Israeli government cedes control over the occupied territories and a West Bank settlers' newspaper calls for every settler to "prepare himself spiritually to stand in Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza region, and to raise his arm-and his gun-against his brother. In that hour of national emergency, most of the means will be legitimate, in the absence of a more comfortable and acceptable choice."7 November 1985 Israel Closes Jewish Settlers' West Bank Paper https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-07-mn-3105-story.html Fisher Dan 31 October 2025 The Los Angeles Times6 November 1985 West Bank Settlers Publication Urges Settlers to Fight by All Means Any Government Decision to Relin https://www.jta.org/archive/west-bank-settlers-publication-urges-settlers-to-fight-by-all-means-any-government-decision-to-relin 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency8 November 1985 Rabin Orders Shutdown of West Bank Settlers’ Publication https://www.jta.org/archive/rabin-orders-shutdown-of-west-bank-settlers-publication 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency December A study by the CUNY Graduate Center that claims to be "the first non-partisan study of health conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" is published, finding "third World patterns of health" in the occupied territories.13 December 1985 Study Finds Impressive Strides but ‘third World Patterns of Health’ on the West Bank and Gaza Strip https://www.jta.org/archive/study-finds-impressive-strides-but-third-world-patterns-of-health-on-the-west-bank-and-gaza-strip 31 October 2025 Jewish Telegraphic Agency 2 December– Aziz Shehadeh, a Palestinian moderate and long-advocate for Palestinian independence, is murdered in Ramallah by the hardline anti-PLO splinter Abu Nidal Organization.3 December 1985 Moderate Palestinian Is Slain in West Bank https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/03/world/moderate-palestinian-is-slain-in-west-bank.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times4 December 1985 AROUND THE WORLD; Radicals Say They Killed West Bank Lawyer https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/04/world/around-the-world-radicals-say-they-killed-west-bank-lawyer.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times 17 December – An-Najah National University is ordered closed for several days by the Israeli authorities, who say that it was necessary to prevent a symposium on armed struggle from being held and to confiscate PLO propaganda material being held on campus.18 December 1985 Israeli Authorities Deny Entry To University on West Bank https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/18/world/israeli-authorities-deny-entry-to-university-on-west-bank.html 31 October 2025 The New York Times18 December 1985 Israeli troops keep An-Najah University closed https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/12/18/Israeli-troops-keep-An-Najah-University-closed/3489503730000/ 31 October 2025 UPI See also 1985 in Israel 1985 in Jordan References 1985 in Palestine Category:Years of the 20th century in Palestine Palestine