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    the two-month-long siege resulted in the expulsion of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from Beirut and the rest of Lebanon. The PLO moved...
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  • The siege of Beirut was an event in the aftermath of the First Crusade. The coastal city of Beirut was captured from the Fatimids by the forces of Baldwin...
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    air attack. By the end of the day, a cease-fire was announced. The Israelis stopped at their present positions. The Siege of Beirut had begun on 14 June...
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    cells of Sunni Islamists and anti-Ba'athist Muslim Brotherhood. Since January, the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp in East Beirut had been under siege by Maronite...
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  • arrived in 1232. The Commune of Acre was able to relieve the siege of Beirut, but in John's absence from Cyprus, the supporters of the Lusignans took control...
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  • Mahmoud Darwish. The work is a memoir of the Siege of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It was translated into...
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  • civilian-combatant fatality ratio of 5:1. Lebanese government sources later estimated that by the end of the siege of Beirut, a total of about 18,000 had been killed...
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    Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon (category Military operations of the Lebanese Civil War)
    Lebanese were killed,[verification needed] and the Israeli army laid siege to Beirut. During the war, fighting also occurred between Israel and Syria. The...
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    Uri Avnery (category Israeli people of German-Jewish descent)
    editor of the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh from 1950 until its closure in 1993. He became known for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet...
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    Beirut (/beɪˈruːt/ bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014[update], Greater Beirut has a population...
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