The birth of Yasser Arafat
Mohammad-Yasser Abdul Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa, later known as Yasser Arafat, is born on the 4th of August 1929, in the home of his grandfather, Saleem Khalil Abu Al-So’ud, in Al-Zawiya Al-Fakhriya on the southwest corner of Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem.  He is the sixth child of Abdul Raouf Dawoud Arafat Al-Qudwa and Zahwa Saleem Khalil Abu Al-So’ud.  Shortly after Yasser Arafat is born, his mother takes him to Cairo where his father works.

Al-Buraq Revolution

On the 29th of August 1929, Palestinian demonstrations erupt in a number of cities over Jewish claims of ownership of Al-Buraq Wall (the Wailing Wall) and becomes known as “Al-Buraq Revolution.” 

 

 

 

 

Al-Aqsa Mosque Fire
On the 21st of August 1969, an Israeli settler sets fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque causing vast destruction. The Supreme Muslim Committee holds the Israeli occupation authorities responsible and affirms the complicity of those authorities in this crime.  Large-scale protests erupt in Jerusalem, and the Islamic world is outraged at the desecration.  Twenty-seven leaders of Islamic countries, led by King Hassan II of Morocco, meet in Rabat to discuss the situation and establish the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) with the Palestine Liberation Organization participating as observer.
 

Assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa
Israel assassinates Mustafa Al-Zibri (Abu Ali Mustafa) Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), firing a missile from a helicopter gunship into his office in Al-Bireh on the 27th of August 2001.  In retaliation, members of the PFLP assassinate extremist Israeli minister Rehavam Ze’evi, at a hotel in Occupied East Jerusalem on the 17th of October.