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    the two-month-long siege resulted in the expulsion of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from Beirut and the rest of Lebanon. The PLO moved...
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  • The siege of Beirut was an event in the aftermath of the First Crusade. The coastal city of Beirut was captured from the Fatimids by the forces of Baldwin...
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    and elements of the Syrian Army in west Beirut, which it subjected to a siege and heavy bombardment. The PLO, under the chairmanship of Yasser Arafat...
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    cells of Sunni Islamists and anti-Ba'athist Muslim Brotherhood. Since January, the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp in East Beirut had been under siege by Maronite...
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  • follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) this siege is semi or entirely mythical. Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764...
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    Beirut (/beɪˈruːt/ bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt/beɪˈruːt/) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014[update], Greater Beirut...
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  • Mahmoud Da'as (category Military personnel of the Uganda–Tanzania War)
    Israel Defense Forces, including during the Siege of Beirut. Following the war, he became Commander in Chief of the Palestinian Revolution Forces. By 1983...
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  • Mahmoud Darwish. The work is a memoir of the Siege of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It was translated into...
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  • encircled Beirut's predominantly Muslim neighborhoods and kept the Israelis at bay during the siege of Beirut. The Israeli advance over West Beirut in the...
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  • arrived in 1232. The Commune of Acre was able to relieve the siege of Beirut, but in John's absence from Cyprus, the supporters of the Lusignans took control...
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  • of Syrian SAM network in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Siege of Beirut – Israeli siege of Beirut in order to force a PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. Battle of...
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    Uri Avnery (category Israeli people of German-Jewish descent)
    editor of the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh from 1950 until its closure in 1993. He became known for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet...
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    Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon (category Military operations of the Lebanese Civil War)
    Lebanese were killed,[verification needed] and the Israeli army laid siege to Beirut. During the war, fighting also occurred between Israel and Syria. The...
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  • civilian-combatant fatality ratio of 4:1. Lebanese government sources later estimated that by the end of the siege of Beirut, a total of about 18,000 had been killed...
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    Yahya Sinwar (category Islamic University of Gaza alumni)
    Israeli siege, saying "We would rather die as martyrs than die out of oppression and humiliation", and adding, "We are ready to die, and tens of thousands...
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  • Hassan Ag Fagaga (category Year of birth missing)
    in the Lebanese Civil War, fighting in the Siege of Beirut. Fagaga participated in the Tuareg rebellion of 1990–1995, first fighting in the MPLA in 1991...
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    1965) is a former senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon and Tehran. He previously held the position of Head of International Relations Department for...
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    Beirut. After five months, the siege turned into a full-scale military assault in June and ended with the massacre in August 1976. At the outbreak of...
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  • took a pivotal refugee camp in the Eastern part of Beirut, the Tel al-Zaatar camp, after a six-month siege, also known as Tel al-Zaatar massacre in which...
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    M110 howitzer (category Cold War artillery of the United States)
    Organization and their Lebanese allies with deadly effect during the Siege of Beirut as part of Operation Peace for Galilee.[citation needed] Iran used its M110s...
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    The Battle of Tel Hai was fought on 1 March 1920 between Arab and Jewish forces at the village of Tel Hai in Northern Galilee. In the course of the event...
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  • Beirut in Lebanon has been the site of several battles in history. Siege of Beirut (1110), a battle during the Crusades Battle of Beirut (1840), a battle...
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  • Palestinian right to resist (category Human rights in the State of Palestine)
    the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. This right, recognized under international law, is based on the principle of self-determination for...
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  • wild exaggeration in the figures of civilian dead reported throughout the war and especially during the siege of Beirut. ... First there was the press pass...
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    Ismail Haniyeh (category Islamic University of Gaza alumni)
    served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination in July 2024. He also served as prime minister of the Palestinian...
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  • Defense Forces armored convoy in Khalde south of Beirut, is considered by Hezbollah as the founding myth of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, the group's...
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    southern Lebanon. Following the siege of Beirut, the PLO forces and their allies negotiated passage from Lebanon with the aid of United States Special Envoy...
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    Retrieved 19 April 2022. Who is Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the Islamic Jihad's Beirut-based chief?, The Jerusalem Post "Ziyad al-Nakhalah". ECFR. 16 April 2018...
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  • lines, leading to the death of his sister. Habash finished his medical education in Lebanon at the American University in Beirut, graduating in 1951. In an...
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  • Palestinian Liberation Front (category Factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization)
    PLF has also been banned in Japan. One notorious incident was the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro on 7 October 1985. The hijackers'...
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