The fourth PNC consolidates guerrilla influence

Organizations/movement: Palestinian literary movement. Action: After the June war, Tuqan re-entered public life in occupied Nablus through poetry and journalism. Result: Her writing increasingly...

Organizations/movement: Fatah. Action: Arafat entered the occupied West Bank in late August to organize clandestine resistance. Result: Fatah attempted to establish an internal base after the Arab...

Organizations/movement: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Action: Several commando groups merged and announced the PFLP. Result: A new coalition emerged from Arab nationalist...

Organizations/movement: PLO photography and film unit. Action: Filmmakers established a unit and displayed photographs documenting the Karameh battle. Result: Documentary work became part of the...

Organizations/movement: Fatah; Jordanian army. Action: Palestinian fighters and Jordanian troops confronted an Israeli incursion at Karameh in Jordan. Result: Israel destroyed the guerrilla base but...

Organizations/movement: Fatah. Action: Fatah advocated equal citizenship irrespective of religion or language. Result: The proposal entered its political programme. Impact / interpretation: It offered...

Organizations/movement: Palestinian literary movement. Action: Kanafani published a novel centred on a refugee mother and her community. Result: The work placed ordinary refugee experience within...

Organizations/movement: Palestinian women protesters. Action: Women held a hunger strike in Jerusalem from 26 to 28 January. Result: Their collective protest became a documented episode of popular...

Organizations/movement: Palestine National Council; PLO. Action: The Cairo session adopted a political statement proposing a democratic society for Palestinians of different religions. Result: The...

Organizations/movement: Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Action: A progressive wing announced a separate organization after disputes within the PFLP. Result: The group later...