Israeli troops fired anti-tank missiles at a suspected Muslim

militant hideout in the West Bank during a 10-hour siege on F
riday
(2/6), killing one Palestinian. After the raid, the arm
y placed a
curfew on...

Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee holds press conference announcing Rejection of hijacking of airlines policy. Meeting the PLO, Nasser, Wafik Al Tibi and Riad Taha

1. ws Nasser (middle), Taha...

Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Nablus on Thursday (3/8). In Thursday's clash, Palestinian youths threw stones at an Israeli army patrol. The army shot back with teargas and rubber...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have withrawn their men from the Lebanese City of Tyre.

1. ws port area pan to show deserted coast
road
2. vs deserted
buildings
3. vs PLO poster on outer
wall of office...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat held talks with Jordan's King Hussein in Amman late on Monday (4/8). Arafat was seeking international help in pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to soften the harsh...

Over six thousand Hamas activists demonstrated in Gaza on Sunday

(1/10) against against the Palestinian-Israeli accord on exte
nding
Palestinian partial self-rule in the occupied West Ba
nk, signed
last week
in...

On Wednesday the Soviet Union Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyk met with the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat (April 6th).

1. ms Gromyko and Arafat emb
race
2. cu Arafat pull out to Arafat wit
h...

Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinian protesters in the

occupied West Bank on Saturday (13/8), wounding one Palesti
nian.
The shootings occurred in the city of Ramallah when the
army tried
to disperse a crowd of...

Palestine Liberation Organisation soldiers cheering and firing into the air on the way to a parade in Beirut where PLO leader Yasser Arafat reviewed recruits and seasoned troops.

1. vs soldiers past on vehicles2. vs crowd runs to...

The west bank city of Nablus saw the fiercest clashes in the last

month on Friday (17/2) as the violence in Hebron spread t
o the
north. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers wh
o returned
tear...

Israel has lifted the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after a suicide bomber attacked passengers aboard a bus in Tel Aviv. As the closure was lifted, the Israeli Cabinet gathered at the prime minister's...

Members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation celebrating the foundation of the movement with a party, playing bagpipes, dancing and singing. Yasser Arafat attends and joins in festivities.He has called 1979 "the year of "fire...

Israeli soldiers evacuated Bethlehem on Thursday (21/12), leaving the biblical birthplace of Jesus to celebrating Palestinian police and thousands of dancing residents in time for Christmas. As the last Israeli border troops left...

Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization met with UAE (United Arab Emirates) President his highness Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan in Abu Dhabi Saturday (June 18) as part of an Arab tour. At their meeting, the two...

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With an agreement on an Israeli pullback falling into place, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is exploring further Mideast peacemaking with senior Palestinian offic
ials.
Her talks with Palestinian...

Palestinians on Saturday (25/12) celebrated their first Christmas

since the PLO took power in Gaza and Jericho with fir
ework
displays and Boy Scouts performing their national anthem
in Mang
er
Square....

Arafat backs Palestinians held in Israeli prisons

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat on Wednesday (21/6) went to the of
fices
of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICR
C) in Gaza
City to lend his...

Israeli troops shot and wounded two Palestinians on Friday (13/5),

firing on stone-throwing marchers as the militant Islamic
Hamas
movement staged its largest-ever show of force in the G
aza Strip,
witnesses said....

Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat reviewing parade of graduate officers of the PLO at a passing-out parade in South Lebanon.

1. ws Arafat through
crowd
2. ms military band playing wit
h pull...

About 90 Palestinian policemen who arrived overnight from Egypt

took over the Israeli military camp in the town of Khan Yun
is on
the Gaza Strip on Friday (13/5). The last Israeli soldi
ers pulled
out at about 4 a.m....

Israeli soldiers began removing army checkpoints from the West

Bank city of Hebron on Monday (2/10), signalling the start o
f the
redeployment of Israeli troops from the occupied West
Bank. In
Jenin,...

Israeli authorities on Tuesday (7/11) eased the blockade imposed

on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the wake o
f the
assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
A military
spokesman said Palestinians...

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat arrived in Bethlehem on Saturday

afternoon (23/12) and was greeted by a crowd of thou
sands
celebrating the city's first Christmas, for many ye
ars, under
Pa
lestinian rule.r/>WS...

At least 15,000 Palestinians, mostly left wing opponents of the

peace agreement between Israel and the PLO, held a rally in
Gaza
city on Friday (17/6) to press Israel to release
all of its
security prisoners....