{"slug": "palestine-liberation-organization", "label": "Palestine Liberation Organization", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26683", "qid": "Q26683", "description": "Palestinian militant and political organization", "entries": 24, "years": 20, "span": [1940, 2004], "span_label": ["1940 CE", "2004 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["PLO", "Palestine Liberation Organisation", "Palestinian Liberation Organisation", "Palestinian Liberation Organization"], "related": [{"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "yasser-arafat", "label": "Yasser Arafat", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "beirut", "label": "Beirut", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cyprus", "label": "Cyprus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestinians", "label": "Palestinians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tunis", "label": "Tunis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestine", "label": "Palestine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cairo", "label": "Cairo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lebanon", "label": "Lebanon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oslo", "label": "Oslo", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 17", "text": "17 July – Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Arab politician and senior member of PLO (died 2001)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367331152#Notable_births", "title": "1940 in Mandatory Palestine", "revid": 1367331152, "section": "Notable births"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – The Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is released by the Arab League.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#May", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 4", "text": "February 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#February", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 21", "text": "21 February – A plane crashes 15 minutes after leaving Zurich Airport on route to Israel after a bomb planted by PLO members explodes, killing all 47 people on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275820811#Events", "title": "1970 in Switzerland", "revid": 1275820811, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 15", "text": "15 May – Three members of the Turkish Liberation Army, an underground militant organization linked to the PLO, kidnapped and executed Israeli consul-general Efraim Elrom in Ankara.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335288660#Events", "title": "1971 in Israel", "revid": 1335288660, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 8", "text": "8 May – Sabena Flight 571 hijacking: Four PLO terrorists hijack an airplane of Sabena Flight 572 carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members en route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission titled \"Operation Isotope\", 16 members of Sayeret Matkal pose as refueling and technical personnel and storm the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318390690#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "1972 in Israel", "revid": 1318390690, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 1974, "year_label": "1974 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372602919#November–December", "title": "1974", "revid": 1372602919, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#May", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Battle of Lukaya: The Ugandan military, a Libyan expeditionary force and allied Palestine Liberation Organisation militants begin a counter-offensive against Tanzanian troops in south-central Uganda. The Ugandan-led alliance retakes Lukaya after a short clash with the Tanzanian military.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#March", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – Lebanese Civil War: Israeli aircraft bomb Beirut, destroying multi-story apartment blocks containing the offices of PLO-associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369107326#July", "title": "1981", "revid": 1369107326, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 24", "text": "24 July – American mediator Philip Habib brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the PLO, temporarily halting the Lebanese Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588104#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "1981 in Israel", "revid": 1365588104, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373279023#August", "title": "1982", "revid": 1373279023, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1983, "year_label": "1983 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – Commencement of the battle of Tripoli between Arafat loyalists and PLO dissidents.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366392977#November", "title": "1983", "revid": 1366392977, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – Operation Wooden Leg: The Israeli air force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters near Tunis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#October", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#April", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 20", "text": "20 August – The first agreement in the Oslo Accords is signed in Oslo, between by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for Israel, Mahmoud Abbas for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Secretary of State Warren Christopher for the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369346512#Events", "title": "1993 in Palestine", "revid": 1369346512, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – Oslo I Accord: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#September", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 24", "text": "24 April – The Crans Montana Forum ends after 4 days. Shimon Peres of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization take part.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353741571#Events", "title": "1994 in Romania", "revid": 1353741571, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 - Gaddafi orders the expulsion of 30,000 Palestinians living in Libya, as a gesture of his opposition to the Oslo II Accord process between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. The expulsion process went badly, with many Palestinians sent to poorly-equipped refugee camps on the Egyptian border or stranded in Cyprus, and the process was temporarily halted in late October 1995. It resumed in 1996, halving the number of Palestinians living in Libya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323170554#Events", "title": "1995 in Libya", "revid": 1323170554, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization drops its clause in Palestinian National Covenant calling for the removal of Israel (→ Legitimacy of the State of Israel). The Israeli government responds by dropping a similar clause concerning the existence of Palestine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#April", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 - Faisal Husseini, 60, Iraqi-born Palestinian politician and senior member of PLO.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372651822#Notable_deaths", "title": "2001 in Palestine", "revid": 1372651822, "section": "Notable deaths"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 - Abu Ali Mustafa, 63 Palestinian politician, member of the PLO executive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372651822#Notable_deaths", "title": "2001 in Palestine", "revid": 1372651822, "section": "Notable deaths"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 - Yasser Arafat, 75, first President of the Palestinian National Authority, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and founder and leader of Fatah.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311636021#Notable_deaths", "title": "2004 in Palestine", "revid": 1311636021, "section": "Notable deaths"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian political leader and chairman PLO, President of the Palestinian Authority.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373192081", "title": "Deaths in November 2004", "revid": 1373192081, "section": "Deaths › November"}}]}