This timeline chronicles some of the major events and legislation that have influenced the United States’ bilateral relationship with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the …

May 28, 2024 · Millions of Palestinians live under the control of a mix of authorities in the Palestinian territories and in refugee camps across the Middle East. In recent decades, the …

May 6, 2025 · The organization started recruiting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, training them, arming them, and launching attacks across the southern border with Israel, inviting Israeli …

The PLO had been successively headquartered in Jordan (from its establishment until the Black September confrontation with Jordan in 1970-71); in Lebanon (until its expulsion by Israel in …

In the early 1980s, PLO became fragmented into several contending groups but remains the preeminent Palestinian organization. The United States considers the PLO an umbrella …

Aug 23, 1999 · A joint statement issued at the end of the meeting affirmed the need for "national dialogue," but also the need to adhere to the principle of "right of return" for Palestinian refugees.

The conflict drove the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) out of Lebanon, saw the emergence of Hezbollah as an implacable foe of Israel and transformed the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Jul 8, 2024 · From 1975, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were able to create a “state within a state” within Lebanon itself, radicalising the 400,000 Arab refugees then living there.

Oct 6, 2023 · The root cause of this clash lay in Lebanon’s distinctive situation as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), while hosting tens of thousands …

In the early 1990s, after the end of the Lebanese civil war, Palestinian refugees found themselves more marginalized than ever. The focus of international attention in the Israeli-Palestinian …

Mar 6, 2024 · By recognizing the State of Israel, the PLO emerged as the internationally recognized representative of the Palestinian people in negotiations with Israel. The Oslo …

May 20, 2000 · Specifically, the United States should encourage Lebanon to improve the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian refugees by, for example, loosening restrictions on …

Dec 28, 1999 · The refugees' protracted presence in Lebanon, and even their misery, may be more politically useful to Arafat, either tactically (to impede Syrian-Israeli talks) or strategically …

Sep 18, 2024 · They had been left behind after the evacuation of fighters from the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut the previous month as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to …

Oct 29, 2024 · Hezbollah emerged during Lebanon’s civil war, which broke out in 1975 when long-simmering discontent over the large, armed Palestinian presence in the country reached a …

May 21, 2025 · The LAF prefers to avoid head-on confrontations for fear of stoking civil conflict with Lebanon’s Palestinian and Shia communities. Yet besides ongoing “dialogue,” military …

Lebanon’s civil war: seven lessons forty years on by Florence Gaub almost a million peo-ple, brought the Lebanese state to near collapse. With similar conflicts now spreading through-out …

Apr 15, 2024 · UNHCR works in 138 countries, while UNRWA provides assistance to Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, including East …

Nov 11, 2004 · Despite the urgings of aides to remain neutral, Arafat, a guest in Lebanon, openly backed the Muslims, further plunging Lebanon into a civil war that broke out in 1975 and …

Jan 10, 2014 · The result was a brutal siege of Lebanon's capital city, which succeeded in expelling Arafat and the PLO but failed to crush their movement, or to reorder Lebanese …