Timeline in 1983

Because the background of events leading to the Zionist settlement in Palestine is so wide, the geographical scope of this timeline includes events outside the immediate theatre of Palestine.


  1984
   Jan 1984: Yona Avrushmi is arrested and charged with killing Emil Gruenzweig


  1983
14 Dec 1983: USS New Jersey bombs villages in the Shouf mountains, Lebanon

24 Nov 1983: Prisoner exchange

23 Oct 1983: Suicide truck attack on US marines in Beirut
23 Oct 1983: 58 French troops killed in attack on Drakkar building in Beirut
16 Oct 1983: Israeli troops kills Shia worshippers in religious procession
   Oct 1983: US naval bombardment of Lebanese villages in the Chouf mountains

21 Aug 1983: Mossad murders Mamoun Meraish in Athens

   May 1983: Revolt against Arafat

18 Apr 1983: Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut
12 Apr 1983: Ali Safiadin makes sucide attack on Israeli convoy in Deir Qanoun en-Nahr
03 Apr 1983: end of Epidemic of Acute Illness in the West Bank (aka Poisoning incident)   >>start date

21 Mar 1983: start of Epidemic of Acute Illness in the West Bank (aka Poisoning incident)   >>end date

22 Feb 1983: end of 16th meeting of the Palestine National Council   >>start date
14 Feb 1983: start of 16th meeting of the Palestine National Council   >>end date
10 Feb 1983: Grenade thrown in Peace Now demonstration killing one person and injuring 9 others
08 Feb 1983: Kahan commission reports findings on massacres in Sabra and Shatila

27 Jan 1983: Meeting of Revolutionary Council of Fateh in Aden


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