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24 July – American mediator Philip Habib brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the PLO, temporarily halting the Lebanese Civil War. [ 14 ] 1 August – Abu Daoud , the PLO militant who had overseen the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes was shot five times at close range while sitting in the coffee shop of the Victoria Hotel in Warsaw .
In July 1981, Israeli warplanes began bombarding a number of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) targets across Lebanon, mostly in Beirut and in the south of the country. This was in response to several Palestinian rocket attacks on northern Israel during the Lebanese Civil War .
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Plucknett's July 7 record of 237 feet 4 inches (72.34 m), and an earlier mark of 233 feet 7 inches (71.20 m), were stricken, and the official world record reverted to the 233 feet 5 inches (71.15 m) mark set by Wolfgang Schmidt of East Germany.
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In April 1981, the United States tried to broker a cease-fire in southern Lebanon among Israel, Syria and the PLO. In July 1981, Israel responded to PLO rocket attacks on northern Israeli settlements by bombing PLO encampments in southern Lebanon. United States envoy Philip Habib eventually negotiated a shaky cease-fire that was monitored by ...
Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 (see Jerusalem Law) and the Golan Heights in 1981. 1975 November 28 — Portuguese Timor unilaterally Democratic Republic of East Timor (1975) from Portugal. It is invaded by Indonesia nine days later. 1976 July 2 — South Vietnam and North Vietnam are officially unified as Vietnam
Map 1: United Nations-derived boundary map of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories (2007, updated to 2018) The modern borders of Israel exist as the result both of past wars and of diplomatic agreements between the State of Israel and its neighbours, as well as an effect of the agreements among colonial powers ruling in the region before Israel's creation.