Al-Wazir used his time in Kuwait to further his ties with Arafat and other fellow Palestinian exiles he had met in Egypt.

Al-Wazir had been assigned by Arafat the responsibility of the Palestinian territories within the PLO command.

Al-Wazir and his family were expelled from Ramla in July 1948, along with another 50, 000 – 70, 000 Palestinians, following Israel's capture of the area during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Al-Wazir remained there, opened a Fatah office and military training camp in Algiers and was included in an Algerian-Fatah delegation to Beijing in 1964.

Al-Wazir and the Fatah leadership settled in Damascus, Syria in 1965, in order take advantage of the large number of Palestine Liberation Army ( PLA ) members there.

Al-Wazir married his cousin Intissar al-Wazir in 1962 and had five children with her.

Al-Wazir settled in Amman for a two-year period and was then exiled to Tunis in 1986.

Al-Wazir was detained once again in 1957 for leading raids against Israel and was exiled to Saudi Arabia, finding work as a schoolteacher.

Al-Wazir became a refugee when his family was expelled from Ramla during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and began leading a minor fedayeen force in the Gaza Strip.

Al-Wazir supposedly " charmed Che Guevara " during Guevara's speech in Algiers.

Al-Wazir did not play a major role in the Lebanese Civil War ; he confined himself primarily to strengthening the Lebanese National Movement, the PLO's main ally in the conflict.

" Al-Wazir activated every cell he had set up in the territories since the late 1970s in an effort to militarily back the stone-throwers who formed the backbone of the Palestinian revolt.

Al-Wazir was assassinated at close range in his home in Tunis at 2 a. m. UTC on April 16, 1988 at the age of 52.

Al-Wazir is widely believed to have been assassinated by an Israeli commando team, reportedly ferried from Israel by boat, and aided ashore by Mossad intelligence operatives.

By June 15, Israeli units were entrenched outside Beirut and Yassir Arafat attempted through negotiations to evacuate the PLO.

Forced out of Jordan and into Lebanon, Arafat and Fatah were major targets of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country.

Arafat and his top aide Abu Jihad were detained in Syria when a pro-Syrian Palestinian leader, Yusef Urabi was murdered.

Shortly after Arafat left the meeting, Orabi was thrown out the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to Hafez al-Assad ( Assad and Orabi were " close friends ") suspected Arafat was involved in the incident.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

Amid the post-war environment, the profiles of Arafat and Fatah were raised by this important turning point, and he came to be regarded as a national hero who dared to confront Israel.

Arafat and a number of his forces, including two high-ranking commanders, Abu Iyad and Abu Jihad, were forced into the northern corner of Jordan.

Israel and the US have alleged also that Arafat was involved in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations, in which five diplomats and five others were killed.

Two pilots and an engineer were killed ; Arafat was bruised and shaken.

The following year, Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Shimon Peres.

Throughout November and December 1995, Arafat toured dozens of Palestinian cities and towns that were evacuated by Israeli forces including Jenin, Ramallah, al-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, declaring them " liberated ".

Some allege that activities of these groups were tolerated by Arafat as a means of applying pressure on Israel.

Negotiations concerning the agreement, an outgrowth of the Madrid Conference of 1991, were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, hosted by the Fafo institute, and completed on 20 August 1993 ; the Accords were subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, D. C., on 13 September 1993 in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U. S. President Bill Clinton.

" Levin argues that both the Israelis and the Americans were naive in expecting that Arafat would agree to give up the idea of a literal " right of return " for all Palestinians into Israel proper no matter how many 1948 refugees or how much monetary compensation Israel offered to allow.

Overall, 68 % of the Palestinian public thought Arafat's positions on a final agreement at Camp David were just right and 14 % thought Arafat compromised too much while only 6 % thought Arafat had not compromised enough.

In it, Feith argued that the Oslo Accords were being undermined by Yasser Arafat's failure to fulfill peace pledges and Israel's failure to uphold the integrity of the accords it had concluded with Arafat.

* 1982-1982 Lebanon War-deep reconnaissance ahead of Israeli forces ( snipers managed to target Yasser Arafat although they were not allowed to fire )

In more recent times, many foreign dignitaries such as Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and Yasser Arafat were welcomed at the castle.

The attacks were first blamed on Palestine Liberation Organization, but its leader, Yasser Arafat, denied the accusations and denounced the strikes.

President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat met and the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, which called for the gradual ceding of control of Palestinian areas to the Palestinians in exchange for peace.

On May 23, 1996 he participated in the National Discussion on Race & Reconciliation, this event was organized and sponsored by the National Press Club in Washington, DC by Hope in the Cities and its participants included but were not limited to U. S. Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and U. S. Congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr .. On December 1996, he led a delegation of American Muslims to Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, to take part in talks with Palestinian leader, President Yassir Arafat.

In attendance that year were the heads of Islamic states, including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, King Hassan II of Morocco, King Hussein of Jordan and President Yasser Arafat of the West Bank.

They set up roadblocks, publicly humiliated Jordanian police forces, molested women and levied illegal taxes — all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored.

There is reason to believe that Arafat was considering some kind of territorial compromise with the State of Israel at least since 1974.

This document, which was accepted by the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) after lobbying by Fatah and DFLP, cautiously introduced the concept of a two-state solution in the PLO, and caused a split in the organization leading to the formation of the Rejectionist Front, where radical organizations such as the PFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestine Liberation Front and others gathered with the backing of Syria, Libya and Iraq to oppose Arafat and the mainstream PLO stance.

Until his death in 2004, Fatah had been closely identified with the leadership of Yasser Arafat, its founder.

* Force 17 – Force 17 was created by Yassir Arafat, and plays a role akin to the Presidential Guard for senior Fatah leaders.

Compounding matters, Lebanon received an influx of armed Palestinian militants, including Arafat and his Fatah movement, fleeing the 1970 Jordanian crackdown.

During this time, Hamas and other militant organizations rose to power and shook the foundations of the authority that Fatah under Arafat had established in the Palestinian territories.

As Arafat began to develop friendships with Palestinian refugees ( some of whom he knew also from his Cairo days ), he and the others gradually founded the group that became known as Fatah.

Hours before he was killed, Arafat was discussing with him ways to unite their factions and to request Orabi's support for Arafat against his rivals within the Fatah leadership.

Although Nasser and his Arab allies had been defeated, Arafat and Fatah could claim a victory, in that the majority of Palestinians, who had up to that time tended to align and sympathize with individual Arab governments, now began to agree that a ' Palestinian ' solution to their dilemma was indispensable.

Arafat with Fatah officials in public meeting with President of Egypt | Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for the first time in Cairo, approximately eight months after Arafat becomes Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1969

Although hesitant at first to take sides in the conflict, Arafat and Fatah played an important role in the Lebanese Civil War.

Arafat was reluctant to respond with force, but many other Fatah and PLO members felt otherwise.

" The Civil War's first phase ended and Arafat — who was commanding Fatah forces at Tel al-Zaatar — narrowly escaped with assistance from Saudi and Kuwaiti diplomats.

Arafat did not return to Lebanon after his second expulsion, though many Fatah fighters did.

In the early 1990s, Arafat and leading Fatah officials engaged the Israeli government in a series of secret talks and negotiations that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords.

Others believe that Israel refrained from taking action against Arafat because it feared Arafat less than Hamas and the other Islamist movements gaining support over Fatah.

The adoption of the program, under pressure from Arafat's Fatah faction and some minor groups ( e. g. DFLP, al-Sa ' iqa ) led many hard-line groups to break away from the Arafat and the mainstream PLO members, forming the Rejectionist Front.

Then in March, Fatah under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, faced off with Israel in Jordan in what became known as the Battle of Karameh.

There, Nasser offered the Fatah movement arms and financial support, but advised Arafat to think of peace with Israel and establishing a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ; Nasser was effectively ceding his leadership of the " Palestine issue " to Arafat.