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العملية الأولى لحركة فتح
Exact day1 January 1965
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.At dawn on 1 January 1965 al-Asifa, Fatah’s armed wing, carried out its first operation inside Israel, blowing up a water supply network: the date Palestinians mark as the start of their modern revolution.
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that al-Asifa carried out its first operation inside Israel at dawn on 1 January 1965, blowing up an Israeli water supply network, and that the operation claimed the movement’s first martyr, Ahmad Muhammad Musa.1
Link to this chapterFatah’s core group was founded in Kuwait in the autumn of 1957 by five or six Palestinians, among them Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir. The encyclopedia calls it the first national liberation movement since 1948 to be started by Palestinians themselves.23
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe PLO is founded
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · encarried out its first operation inside Israel at dawn on 1 January 1965: blowing up an Israeli water supply networkLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · enfounded in Kuwait in autumn 1957 by five or six PalestiniansLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · enwas the first national liberation movement since 1948 to be started by Palestinians themselvesLink to this citationarticle · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Maher Charif, “Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)”, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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