The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
-The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) consisting of 500,000 Palestinian refugees living in south Lebanon who began conducting terrorist attacks on Israel.
-Israel invaded Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982.
-Multinational force sent in to restore order (The PLO women are massacred)
-Syria invades in 1987, so the PLO eventually agrees to withdraw.
-In 1991 a ceasefire is signed, although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon.
-Attacks were still launched on Israel from the Golan Heights area.
-The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah. Fatah led the highjacking of planes (three were blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970).
-The most well-known attacks included the those on the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
-Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attack.
-The Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, responded with Operation Sword of Gideon.
-They led many intifadas in the following years.
-Israel invaded Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982.
-Multinational force sent in to restore order (The PLO women are massacred)
-Syria invades in 1987, so the PLO eventually agrees to withdraw.
-In 1991 a ceasefire is signed, although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon.
-Attacks were still launched on Israel from the Golan Heights area.
-The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah. Fatah led the highjacking of planes (three were blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970).
-The most well-known attacks included the those on the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
-Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attack.
-The Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, responded with Operation Sword of Gideon.
-They led many intifadas in the following years.