Palestine Popular Liberation Organization (in

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: المنظمة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين) was a

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

political organization. It was formed in 1964, on the eve of the first session of the

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which was held in May 1964. The headquarters of the PPLO had reportedly been in

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. The PPLO comprised three streams: left-wing

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(with its base of Palestinian refugees in

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), former members of the Arab Socialist Baath Party and the

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and elements from the Palestinian communities in

and

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. Muhammad Fayyad and Ibrahim Khraysha were the leaders of the group. In May–June 1969, the Palestinian Revolutionary Left League and the PPLO merged into the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP).Demokratiska Folkfronten för Palestinas Befrielse, Dokument nr. 1, p. 1 According to a declassified

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report, the PPLO broke off from the PDFLP after that, and in February 1970 joined the United Fedayeen Command.

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