Its efforts ultimately failed, and the PLO became embroiled what was in effect a Palestinian civil war.

Its Statement of Proclamation of the Organization declared "... the right of the Palestinian Arab people to its sacred homeland Palestine and affirming the inevitability of the battle to liberate the usurped part from it, and its determination to bring out its effective revolutionary entity and the mobilization of the capabilities and potentialities and its material, military and spiritual forces ".

Its goal, as stated in the Palestinian National Covenant was to create a Palestinian state in the whole British Mandate, a statement which nullified Israel's right to exist.

Its first mission, " Operation Feuerzauber " ( Operation Fire Magic ), immediately established the GSG 9's reputation as an elite unit, It was carried out in 1977 when Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Landshut, a Lufthansa plane on the way from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, demanding that imprisoned members of the German Red Army Faction terrorist group be freed in exchange for the passengers and crew who would be held as hostages.

Its ranks included mainly Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinian Arabs and Druzes and a few hundreds of Iraqis, Transjordanians, Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Circassians.

Its proponents commonly argued that such a cease-fire would allow hostility to die down and make a full reconciliation possible ; its opponents commonly argued that it would be a mere tactical maneuver enabling Palestinian groups to re-group and muster their strength in preparation for further attacks on Israelis, or Israel to continue expanding settlements, blockading Palestinian towns, and arresting members of such groups.

Its stated goal is to reform the Palestinian refugee camps under Islamic sharia law, and its primary targets are the Lebanese authorities, Israel and the United States.

Its importance to Syria has lessened, both because the PLO has diminished in importance compared to the Palestinian National Authority ( which as-Sai ' qa boycotts ), and because Damascus has changed its strategy to supporting the Palestinian Islamist factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Its stated aim is to meet the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people.

Its stated goals were to push Palestinian militant groups, particularly the PLO, away from the border with Israel, and to bolster Israel's ally at the time, the South Lebanon Army because of the attacks against Lebanese Christians and Jews and because of the relentless shelling into Northern Israel.

Its prominence increased in the 1960s with the beginning of the Palestinian resistance movement and its adoption by Palestinian politician Yasser Arafat.

Its successor, the Palestine Football Association, was recognized by FIFA in 1998, after the creation of the Palestinian Authority.

Its main platform includes a recognition of the two-state solution, the creation of a Palestinian state that would include an exchange of some largely Arab-inhabited parts of Israel for largely Jewish-inhabited parts of the West Bank.

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Its activists developed close connections with international terrorist groups, including Palestinian liberation movements like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Its operational definition of Palestine refugee for persons qualifying for UNRWA assistance says " whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948, and 1967 conflicts ," descendants are also eligible for registration.

Its mandate extended past the RPF overthrow of the government and into the Great Lakes refugee crisis.

Its reconstruction began in the late 17th century, the arrival of refugee monks from Tvrdoš Monastery, ( Herzegovina ), and was completed in 1831.

Its primary constituency was the large Burundian refugee population situated in neighboring Rwanda.

Its first project was to campaign for refugee policy reform and to campaign for human rights in Australia, and these remain their primary focus.

Its population in 1900 was 1, 675.

Its population of about 26 million people provided a massive pool of manpower, but 3 / 4 of the population and nearly all of the Muslim component lived in the Asian part of the Empire.

Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".

Its population grew with the arrival of the railways in the Victorian era and the advent of tourism.

Its population at the end of 2007 was 33, 600.

Its population density is 763. 7 people per square mile ( 294. 9 / km² ).

Its population growth rate is 1. 41 %, ranking 102nd in the world in 2010.

Its population density, at 201 / km² ( 520 / sq.

Its population was 160, 248 as of the 2010 Census.

Its total population is estimated at 41 million inhabitants as of 2011.

Its area is of 2, 805 km², containing six departments and a population of around 1, 409, 000 ( 2004 ).

Its population is one of the few in Russia which is expected to show strong growth.

Its European peoples, of ethnic French, Spanish and Mexican descent, were largely Catholic ; in addition, there was a large population of enslaved Africans made up of a high proportion of recent arrivals from Africa, as Spain had continued the international slave trade.

Its population is primarily ethnic Alemannic, although its resident population is approximately one third foreign-born, primarily German speakers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and the Swiss Confederation, other Swiss, Italians, and Turks.

Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian.

Its industries and population generate so much waste heat it no longer requires a star for warmth ( the four other " farmworlds " use artificial orbital lights to grow food ).

Its size is just over with a population of 14. 5 million.

Its capital, Dzaoudzi, had a population of 5, 865 according to the 1985 census ; the island's largest town, Mamoudzou, had 12, 026 people.

Its population consists of Christians, Muslims ( chiefly Riffians ), and small minorities of Jews.

Its resident population in 2012 was 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during Hajj period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah.

Its capital is Pyongyang, the country's largest city by both land area and population.

Its population is approximately 58 percent indigenous Nauruan and 26 percent other Pacific Islander, with sizable minorities of both Europeans and Chinese, each numbering about 8 percent respectively.

Its decline was due mainly to the reduction of real and psychological differences between country and city brought about by the postwar expansion of the Australian urban population and to the increased affluence and technological changes that accompanied it.