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Republican lawmakers seek to block Palestinian upgrades at UN • May 8, 2025, 3:14 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
Occupied West Bank: Can the PLO's new deputy bring hope? • May 1, 2025, 7:23 AM ET (Deutsche Welle)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a new deputy in a major step in naming a successor • Apr. 26, 2025, 2:25 PM ET (AP)
A look at the PLO’s new vice president, Hussein al-Sheikh • Apr. 26, 2025, 2:19 PM ET (AP)
Middle East latest: Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 50, many of them women and children • Apr. 24, 2025, 5:37 PM ET (AP)

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Also Known As PLO • Munazzamat at-Tahrir Filastin • Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr Filasṭīniyyah
Date 1964 - present
Areas Of Involvement guerrilla warfare • national liberation movement
Related People Yasser Arafat • Mahmoud Abbas • Imad Mughniyeh • Abū Niḍāl • Ṣalāḥ Khalaf • Charles Hélou • Saʿīd Ḥammāmī • Aḥmad Shuqayrī • Fayṣal ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥusaynī • ʿIsām Sartāwī • Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr • Zuhayr Muḥsin • Abu Daoud

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