#Palestine

9 entries tagged Palestine.

People (1)

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was PLO chairman from 1969 until his death, building Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, leading the PLO through exile in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiating the 1993 Oslo Accords that earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.

Black September Black September was a Palestinian militant organization responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and subsequent operations against Israeli targets in Europe, triggering the Israeli Operation Wrath of God campaign.
Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded 1964 and led by Yasser Arafat's Fatah from 1969, conducted guerrilla campaigns from Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia before the 1994 Oslo Accords established it as the recognized Palestinian representative body and created the Palestinian Authority.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Munich Olympic Massacre The Munich Olympic Massacre (September 5-6, 1972) was the Black September seizure of eleven Israeli Olympic team members, all of whom died in a failed West German rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck, leading directly to Israeli Operation Wrath of God and the creation of West Germany's GSG 9.

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is a small coastal Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean, bordered by Israel and Egypt, that was under Israeli occupation from 1967 to 2005 and is governed by Hamas since 2007; it appears in this vault primarily as the home territory of Palestinian factions referenced in the vault's Israeli intelligence and Mossad operational subjects.
Jerusalem Jerusalem is the contested capital of Israel and a site claimed by Palestinians for a future capital; it appears in this vault primarily in connection with Israeli intelligence operations, Camp David Accords negotiations, and the Sabra and Shatila massacre investigations.
Palestine Palestine is the name used for the territory comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem claimed for an independent Palestinian state; Palestinian organizations including the PLO, Black September, and PFLP figure extensively in the vault's Mossad operations and Israeli intelligence subjects, as do the CIA's relations with Palestinian intelligence.
West Bank The West Bank is the Palestinian territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently occupied; its political status and the intelligence operations conducted there by Israeli security forces are relevant to the vault's Mossad, Shin Bet, and Palestinian intelligence subjects.