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Exact day21 August 1982
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 21 August 1982, after the siege of West Beirut, the departure of the PLO leadership, offices and fighters from Lebanon began under a multinational force; the evacuation of some 14,600 Palestinian armed personnel was completed on 1 September. The PLO set up its headquarters in Tunis.
The plan, dated Beirut, 20 August 1982, provided for the PLO leadership, offices and combatants in Beirut to leave Lebanon peacefully for pre-arranged destinations abroad, among them Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, the two Yemens, Syria, Sudan and Algeria, with a temporary multinational force of French, Italian and American units assisting the Lebanese army. Its departure day was 21 August.1
Link to this chapterThe UN backgrounder records that the evacuation of some 14,600 Palestinian armed personnel from the Beirut area was completed on 1 September 1982, and that the PLO re-established its headquarters in Tunis, then the seat of the League of Arab States.23
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe Sabra and Shatila massacre
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Basic concept; timetable
Editorial paraphrase · enThe PLO leadership, offices, and combatants in Beirut will leave Lebanon peacefully for pre-arranged destinations in other countries; departure day, 21 August.
Link 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 evacuation of some 14,600 Palestinian armed elements from the Beirut area was completed on 1 September.Link 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 Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters was re-established in Tunis, then the location of the headquarters of the League of Arab States.Link to this citationdocument · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The plan’s text, in the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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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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08-21 · occurrence
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