State · 1988 – present
Palestine
A state of 1988 – present — 38 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 48 things within it — wars and battles 18 · unrest and atrocity 13 · famine and plague 2 · people 15. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 38 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 2
- the president of the State of Palestine
- Within it
- 48
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of president of the State of Palestine - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yasser Arafat | 1989 – 2004 | 15 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Mahmoud Abbas | 2008 – in office | in office since 2008 | still in office |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1989 – 2008. Only 19 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of the State of Palestine, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Yasser Arafat | 1994 – 2003 |
| Mahmoud Abbas | 2003 – 2003 |
| Ahmed Qurei | 2003 – 2006 |
| Ismail Haniyeh | 2006 – 2007 |
| Rami Hamdallah | 2013 – 2014 |
| Salam Fayyad | 2013 – 2013 |
| Mohammad Shtayyeh | 2019 – 2024 |
| Mohammad Mustafa | 2024 – … |
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Palestine · Public domain 
flag, from 1988Flag of Palestine · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199913 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Yasser Arafat · ruler · 1929 – 2004
- Mahmoud Abbas · ruler · 1935 – present
- Hiba Abu Nada · writer · 1991 – 2023
- Killing of Rouzan al-Najjar · person · 1997 – 2018
- Cave of the Patriarchs massacre · atrocity · 1994
- Bisan Owda · writer · 1997 – present
- Anas Al-Sharif · writer · 1996 – 2025
- Saleh al-Jafarawi · writer · 1997 – 2025
and 5 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209935 rows · 18 wars and battles · 12 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Gaza genocide · atrocity · 2023
- Gaza War (2008–2009) · battle · 2008 – 2009
- 2018–2019 Gaza border protests · unrest · 2018
- Killing of Hind Rajab · atrocity · 2024
- Battle of Gaza (2007) · battle · 2007
- Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip · battle · 2005
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip · war · 2023
- July 2023 Jenin incursion · battle · 2023
and 27 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood38 years
stood longer than 30% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 35 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1978 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2007, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q219060 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.