During this time in the 1970s, numerous leftist PLO groups took up arms against Israel, carrying out attacks against civilians as well as military targets within Israel and outside of it.

The declaration of a State of Palestine () took place in Algiers on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

Another factor that pushed the PLO to the accords was the fallout from the Gulf War ; because Arafat took a pro-Iraqi stand during the war, the Arab States of the Persian Gulf cut off financial assistance to the PLO.

Shabana, who took part in the investigation into Arafat's death in a French hospital in 2004, also said that several months after his death, the same cell murdered the head of military intelligence in Gaza, General Moussa Arafat, a relative of the PLO leader, in order to prevent a blood feud.

The five terrorists were later released under negotiations during another hijacking that took place on November 21, 1974, but were then returned to the custody of the PLO.

The alliance was not to last, however: he took his party out of the alliance in 1969 following the Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese government and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), which allowed the latter to establish bases in Southern Lebanon from which to launch commando raids against Israel.

The 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon ( known as Operation Spring of Youth, part of Operation Wrath of God ) took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973 when Israel Defense Forces special forces units attacked several Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) targets in Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon.

His militia numbered more than 3000 fighters, and took an active part in the Lebanese War of 1982, by becoming allied to the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), managed by Yasser Arafat, also by becoming allied to the other left-wing parties to form the Lebanese National Movement, against the parties of the Lebanese right with Christian majority.

The " Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners ", which the PLO asserted was a front for Israel, took credit for the attack.

Amal also had the advantage over the PLO in terms of equipment, especially armored vehicles.

Its military capacity has been fading fast since the 1993 cease-fire between the PLO and Israel, which the DFLP respected despite its objections to the Oslo Accords.

For its part, the PLO used its new privileges to establish an effective " mini-state " in southern Lebanon, and to ramp up its attacks on settlements in northern Israel.

Abu Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could attend a PLO meeting convened in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of rescinding an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication.

Following a 1963 Draft Constitution the first version of the Charter was written by Ahmad Shukeiri, the first chairman of the PLO, using the slightly different name al-Mithaq al-Qawmi al-Filastini, meant to reflect its origins in Nasser's Pan-Arabism.

Compared to its predecessor, it focused more on the independent national identity and vanguard role of the Palestinian people, led by the PLO, in their " liberation of their homeland " by armed struggle.

The original PLO Charter ( issued on 28 May 1964 ) stated that " Palestine with its boundaries that existed at the time of the British mandate is an integral regional unit " and sought to " prohibit ... the existence and activity " of Zionism.

The PLO has no central decision-making or mechanism that enables it to directly control its factions, but they are supposed to follow the PLO charter and Executive Committee decisions.

Jordan ceded its claim to the area to the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in November 1988.

Jordan ceded its West Bank claims to the PLO in November 1988, later confirmed by the Israel – Jordan Treaty of Peace of 1994.

Prior to signing the accords, Arafat — as Chairman of the PLO and its official representative — signed two letters renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel.

Israel and Jordan made peace without Israel withdrawing from the West Bank, since Jordan had already renounced its claims and recognized the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinians.

The PLO would become the leading force in the Palestinian national movement politically, and its leader, Yassir Arafat, would become regarded as the leader of the Palestinian people.

In May, the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), an umbrella group that included various Palestinian factions, was founded and its head was to be Ahmad Shukeiri, Nasser's personal nominee.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

Eventually, the PLO began to call for an end to the violence, but murders by its members and rivals continued.

The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) realized the loss of its most important diplomatic patron, due to the deterioration of the Soviet Union that started in 1989, and Arafat's failing relationship with Moscow.

Along with the principles, the two groups signed Letters of Mutual Recognition — the Israeli government recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, while the PLO recognized the right of the state of Israel to exist and renounced terrorism as well as other violence, and its desire for the destruction of the Israeli state.

Unlike most of the organizations involved in the Rejectionist Front, the PFLP-GC never resumed its role within the PLO.

However, the members of these PLO groups were limited in their ability to confront Fatah, which never lost its supremacy within the umbrella organization.

This allowed the PLA to seize seven US-made M48A5 main battle tanks ( MBTs ) and a number of Staghound armoured cars, AMX-13 light tanks and M113 APCs for its own armoured corps, further strengthened in 1985 with the arrival of some 70 T-54 / 55 MBTs, BTR-152, BTR-60 and BMP-1 APCs supplied on loan by Syria and the USSR, which they employed in the War of the Camps waged that same year against Nasserite and PLO militias in west Beirut.

PLO, under the chairmanship of Yasser Arafat, had relocated its headquarters to Tripoli in June 1982.

In August 1968, he led an attempt to make PLA Syria brigades more independent of Syrian control, and was made PLA chief-of-staff by the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) Executive Committee.

During the period between 1975 and 1976, Jumblatt acted as the main leader of the Lebanese opposition in the war, and with the aid of the PLO the LNM rapidly gained control over nearly 70 % of Lebanon.

Yezid Sayigh documents the early skirmishes which saw the army not only lose control over its barracks to the occupying PLO but also lost many soldiers.

The plan was eventually ruled out after the PLO and other Arab states strongly opposed the plan and after Israel rejected the notion of transferring the control of East Jerusalem to such a federation.

As a result of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), the town came under the Palestinian National Authority's control on 10 December 1995.

In 1993, with the transfer of increased control of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem from Israel to the Palestinians, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat appointed Sulaiman Ja ' abari as Grand Mufti.

Finding himself once again in a position of power, he began wrestling for control of the ideologically diverse movement, and of the PLO, pitted against PLO chairman and PNA president Mahmoud Abbas.

The Israeli plan was to drive the PLO away from the Israeli border and help Bachir Gemayel's Phalangist militia take control of south Lebanon.

At the time, the PLO was based in Tunis and did not have control over any part of Palestine.

Assad himself sought to control the PLO and Lebanon.

The results were mitigated since the PLO retained control of some of the camps.

* Palestinian National Authority, an interim administrative body established by the PLO pursuant to the Oslo Accords of 1993, which exercises limited control of populated areas of the West Bank.

In 1970, after their expulsion from Jordan during Black September, the PLO began taking control over southern Lebanon and breaking the tranquility that resided in the area.