Significant1970 – 1971 · 1 year

Black September (Jordan)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Amman · Jordan

Estimated casualties

1.5K – 8.0Kestimated dead

Estimates range from ~1,500–2,000 to 7,000–8,000 killed.

SOURCEscholarly

A 1970–1971 conflict in which the Jordanian army under King Hussein expelled Palestinian fedayeen organisations that had become a state-within-a-state. The fighting, concentrated in Amman, killed thousands and forced the PLO to relocate to Lebanon.

Belligerents2

Jordan
Palestinian fedayeen (PLO)

Sources

Wikipedia: Black September
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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