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Also Known As PLO • Munazzamat at-Tahrir Filastin • Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr Filasṭīniyyah
Date 1964 - present
Areas Of Involvement guerrilla warfare • national liberation movement
Related People Yasser Arafat • Mahmoud Abbas • Imad Mughniyeh • Abū Niḍāl • Ṣalāḥ Khalaf • Saʿīd Ḥammāmī • Charles Hélou • Aḥmad Shuqayrī • Fayṣal ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥusaynī • ʿIsām Sartāwī • Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr • Zuhayr Muḥsin • Abu Daoud

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