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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Arab Cold War Fedayeen of Fatah at a rally in Beirut, 1979 Date 1968–1982 Location South Lebanon North Israel Result Israeli victory Expulsion of the Palestine Liberation ...
Europe was responsive to the plight of the Palestinians over the course of the PLO's time in Lebanon and France and Greece in particular made efforts in support of the Palestinian cause. [8] The US was less positive in response to the PLO and at one time favoured a policy of isolating the Palestinians, which clearly did not work.
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 .
Only during the Hamas-led PA Government in 2006–2007 did the PLO resurface. After Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, Abbas issued a decree suspending the PLC and some sections of the Palestinian Basic Law, and appointed Salam Fayyad as prime minister. The PLO remains the official representative of the State of Palestine at the UN.
In December 1995, the PLO also assumed responsibility for civil administration in 17 areas in Hebron. [93] While the PLO assumed these responsibilities as a result of Oslo, a new temporary interim administrative body was set up as a result of the Accords to carry out these functions on the ground: the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
Immediately after its creation at the 1964 Arab League summit in Alexandria, the PLO (then headed by Ahmad Shukeiri) was effectively under the control of the Arab states, especially Nasser's Egypt. The Palestinians would not gain independent control of the organization until Yasser Arafat 's Fatah faction wrested it from Nasser-backed ...
Habib's negotiations were indirect, as the U.S. at the time did not have formal diplomatic relations with the PLO, which was still considered a terrorist organization by the United States. Nevertheless, through intermediaries, Habib was able to communicate with Arafat and work out the terms for a PLO withdrawal, while simultaneously liaising ...
PLO's Ten Point Program (in Arabic: برنامج النقاط العشر) (by Israel called the PLO's Phased Plan) is the plan accepted by the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), at its 12th meeting held in Cairo on 8 June 1974.