The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
-500,00 Palestinian refugees living in south Lebanon conduct terrorist attacks on Israel (PLO)
-Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982
-Multinational force sent in to restore order (PLO women are massacred)
-Syria invades in 1987
-PLO eventually agrees to withdraw
-1991 a cease fire was signed although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon
-Attacks still launched on Israel from Golan heights area
-Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982
-Multinational force sent in to restore order (PLO women are massacred)
-Syria invades in 1987
-PLO eventually agrees to withdraw
-1991 a cease fire was signed although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon
-Attacks still launched on Israel from Golan heights area
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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was established in 1964 and has been the embodiment of the Palestinian national movement. It is a broad national front, or an umbrella organization, comprised of numerous organizations of the resistance movement, political parties, popular organizations, and independent personalities and figures from all sectors of life.