Jordanian soldiers look at a destroyed Palestinian jeep on September 26, 1970, during fighting between the Jordanian army and Palestinian armed fedayeen fighters in the so-called Black September events. In September 1970, King Hussein of Jordan decided to put an end to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s state-within-a-state in Jordan as well as its guerilla attacks on Israeli-occupied Arab territory in the West Bank and ordered the Jordanian military to launch attacks to push the PLO out of Jordan. Armed conflict lasted until July 1971 and caused the death of thousands of Palestinans and the expulsion of the PLO and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.

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