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اغتيال أبو جهاد في تونس
Exact day16 April 1988
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 16 April 1988, in Sidi Bou Said near Tunis, Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), second-in-command of the PLO, was assassinated. The Security Council, in resolution 611, condemned the aggression against Tunisia.
In resolution 611 of 25 April 1988 the Security Council noted with concern that the aggression perpetrated on 16 April 1988 in the locality of Sidi Bou Said had caused loss of human life, particularly the assassination of Khalil al-Wazir, and condemned vigorously the aggression against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Tunisia. The UN backgrounder records that al-Wazir was second-in-command of the PLO, whose headquarters had been in Tunis since 1982.12
Link to this chapterAssassinated at his house in Sidi Bou Said by an Israeli military unit
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
Linked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe First Intifada, The Palestinian Declaration of Independence, Jordan severs its ties with the West Bank
Evidence
United Nations · section: Preamble
Original-language quotation · enthe aggression perpetrated on 16 April 1988 in the locality of Sidi Bou Said has caused loss of human life, particularly the assassination of Mr. Khalil El WazirLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: B. The invasion of Lebanon by Israel in 1982 and other acts of violence directed at Palestinians outside the occupied Palestinian territory
Original-language quotation · enthe assassination of Mr. Khalil El Wazir, second-in-command at the Palestine Liberation OrganizationLink to this citationdocument · United Nations
The resolution’s text, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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document · United Nations
The United Nations backgrounder on the question of Palestine from 1979 to 1990, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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04-16 · occurrence
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