1985 in Palestine
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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.[1][2]
- 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.[3][4]
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][6] In the aftermath, the Israeli government pledges to take a harsher line on Palestinian violence.[7]
- 11 February: PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan sign the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement.[8]
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."[9][10]
- 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."[11]
April
- 19 April: Bethlehem University is ordered indefinitely closed by the Israeli authorities following an Israeli military raid of the campus.[12]
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.[13][14][15]
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.[16]
- 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.[17][18][19]
- 17 August: The 1985 West Bank land fraud case is revealed.[20][21]
- 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.[22]
September
October
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."[23][24][25]
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.[26]
- 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.[27][28]
- 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.[29][30]
See also
References
- ↑ Fisher, Dan (11 January 1985). "Israeli Blocs Approve 6 West Bank Settlements". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "6 New West Bank Settlements Announced". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 11 January 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "One Dead in Wave of Attacks On Vehicles in the West Bank". The New York Times. 1 February 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "AROUND THE WORLD; Jewish Settlers Block Roads in West Bank". The New York Times. 4 February 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "ISRAELI IS KILLED IN WEST BANK". The New York Times. 5 February 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Terrorist Group Says It Killed Israeli Reserve Soldier in Ramallah". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 6 February 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Fisher, Dan (9 February 1985). "Israel Warns of Toughened Punishment in Effort to Suppress West Bank Violence". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Kawar, Samira (12 February 1985). "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein agreed..." UPI. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "West Bank University Closed By Israel Over Banned Books". The New York Times. 4 March 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Birzeit University News Letter, Issue : 9, April 1985". Birzeit University. April 1985. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
- ↑ "Rabin Assures Jewish Settlers in the Gaza Strip That the Territory Will Always Be a Part of Israel". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 22 March 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "West Bank Campus Sealed". The New York Times. 20 April 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Arab Hospital Protest". The Los Angeles Times. 25 July 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Israel Rejects Arab Charges That Closing of Hospice Hospital in Old City Was Political Decision". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 6 August 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Austrian Arab Group Says Hospice Hospital in Old City Will Re-open". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 7 August 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Two Move Against Terrorist Activity". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 5 August 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Abu Shakrah, Jan (Summer 1986). "The "Iron Fist", October 1985 to January 1986". Journal of Palestine Studies. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Claiborne, William (5 August 1985). "Israel Sets Antiterror Measures". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Friedman, Thomas L. (11 August 1985). "WEST BANK ARABS HAVE RARELY FELT SO CORNERED". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Ehrlich, Ayal (11 December 1985). "West Bank Land Fraud". Koteret Rashit. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "LAND FRAUD IN WEST BANK PROBED". The Chicago Tribune. 27 August 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "ISRAELIS DETAIN 14 MORE ARABS IN NEW WEST BANK CRACKDOWN". The New York Times. 2 September 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ Fisher, Dan (7 November 1985). "Israel Closes Jewish Settlers' West Bank Paper". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "West Bank Settlers Publication Urges Settlers to Fight by All Means Any Government Decision to Relin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 6 November 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Rabin Orders Shutdown of West Bank Settlers' Publication". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 8 November 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Study Finds Impressive Strides but 'third World Patterns of Health' on the West Bank and Gaza Strip". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 13 December 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Moderate Palestinian Is Slain in West Bank". The New York Times. 3 December 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "AROUND THE WORLD; Radicals Say They Killed West Bank Lawyer". The New York Times. 4 December 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Israeli Authorities Deny Entry To University on West Bank". The New York Times. 18 December 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ↑ "Israeli troops keep An-Najah University closed". UPI. 18 December 1985. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
