Yasser Arafat1978
Israel invades Lebanon in order to expel the PLO
Palestine · Politics / PLO. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Israel invades Lebanon in order to expel the PLO
The Lebanese army, backed by Syria, forces the PLO to abandon its strongholds in southern Lebanon
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