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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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    air attack. By the end of the day, a cease-fire was announced. The Israelis stopped at their present positions. The Siege of Beirut had begun on 14 June...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Beirut (/beɪˈruːt/ bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014[update], Greater Beirut has a population...
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  • follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764 BC) Siege of Larsa (1763 BC) Siege of Avaris...
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  • civilian-combatant fatality ratio of 5:1. 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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    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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  • (July 1981), including Bombing of Beirut 1982 Siege of Beirut 1982 Beirut bombing 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre 1983 Beirut barracks bombings 1983 United...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    founded in 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley, has become the leading pro-Palestinian voice on campus." As of 2019, SJP had over 200 chapters...
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    Palestinian Intifada or the Stone Intifada, was a sustained series of protests, acts of civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
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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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    M110 howitzer (category Cold War artillery of the United States)
    systems against PLO and Lebanese allies with deadly effect during Siege of Beirut.[citation needed] Iran used its M110s during Iran–Iraq War against...
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  • Following the killing of an Israeli soldier on 11 October 2022, for which the Lions' Den claimed responsibility, Nablus is under a tight siege which Palestinians...
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  • Palestinian right to resist (category Human rights in the State of Palestine)
    occupation under Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions. This right is affirmed in the context of the right of self-determination of all peoples under foreign...
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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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  • 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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    passenger boat), Greece Greek Ship to Gaza and European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza MV Mavi Marmara (passenger ship), Comoros, İHH Gazze, Turkey, İHH...
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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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    shelling and attacking of Eastern Beirut for about three months before an Arab-brokered agreement forced the Syrians to end the siege. Syrians took high buildings...
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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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    Kissufim.[third-party source needed] The DFLP battled IDF troops during the siege of Khan Yunis. On 19 February 2024 it was reported that they attacked an Israeli...
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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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  • 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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