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Also Known As al-Fatah • Ḥarakāt al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī al-Filasṭīnī • Fatḥ
Date c. 1956 - present
Headquarters Damascus
Areas Of Involvement guerrilla warfare • terrorism
Related People Yasser Arafat • Mahmoud Abbas • Abū Niḍāl • Ṣalāḥ Khalaf • Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr • Marwan Barghouti

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