1999 in the Palestinian territories
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Events in the year 1999 in Palestine.
Incumbents
[edit]- President of Palestine – Yasser Arafat (Fatah)
- President of the Palestinian National Authority – Yasser Arafat (Fatah)
- Government of Palestine – 3rd Government of Palestine
Events
[edit]- 29 April – The Palestinian Central Council decided to put off declaring independence until after the Israeli elections, triggering riots in the territories.[1]
- 4 May – The five-year interim period, which was agreed to in the 1993 Oslo I Accord and began with the signing of the Gaza–Jericho Agreement on 4 May 1994, ends without reaching a comprehensive peace agreement.
- 3 June – 3,000 Palestinians participated in a "Day of Rage"/"Day of Wrath" in protest of the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at the call of the Palestinian Authority.[2][3] Sociologist Baruch Kimmerling notes the result of the call was ultimately "minimal."[3]
- 17 June – The Palestinian Authority joined the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States upon its inception in Iran.
- 4 September – Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak signed the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum, an interim peace agreement.[4]
- 10 September – The Israeli government pre-emptively handed civilian control of 7% of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority, the first transfer of legal authority in 1999, in preparation for peace talks later that week.[5]
- 13 September–3 October – Bilateral negotiations over Palestine's final status are conducted but no deal was signed due to disputes over Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, and travel rights between Gaza and the West Bank.[6]
- General trends
Deaths
[edit]- 10 September – Mohammed Shreiteh, father of eight who allegedly sustained terminal injuries stemming from police beating him a day earlier while he was in custody, died in Hebron.[8]
- 3 December – Mahmoud Mohammed al-Bajjali, father of three who died in prison after serving five years in prison without trial, died in Ramallah.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ A Political Chronology of the Middle East. Europa Publications. 2006. p. 186.
- ^ Patrick Cockburn (11 June 1999). "Palestine officers denounce Arafat". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01.
- ^ a b Kimmerling, Baruch. Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies. Columbia University Press, 2008, 326.
- ^ Ahmed Qurie (2008). Beyond Oslo, the Struggle for Palestine: Inside the Middle East Peace Process from Rabin's Death to Camp David. p. 88.
- ^ "Israel hands over more West Bank land to Palestinians". CNN. 10 September 1999.
- ^ Derek Brown (20 September 2001). "Middle East timeline: 1999". The Guardian.
- ^ a b Saree Makdisi (2010). Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 157.
- ^ a b As'ad Ganim (2002). The Palestinian Regime: A "Partial Democracy". Sussex Academic Press. p. 125.
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