the revolution. up with the ads announced the birth of a new group which came to be known as the black september organization taking its name from the conflict with jordan. in november of one nine hundred seventy one at an out of the finance minister's council in cairo black september struck its first blow. the target was this man jordanian prime minister was fear that all palestinians accused of responsibility for their expulsion from the. governor had nothing whatsoever be on it and if that was one of our group decided to assist and it was fatality by any means possible. there were four of us in the hit team i was under the command of and about her since her lap. they ordered us to go to egypt it was sunday november twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy one three of us waited for was fit in the lobby of the kato shutter as soon as

he entered the hotel we opened fire on him we shot him fourteen pounds then we gave ourselves up. that was the plan that we were to kill him and then go to try to gain media exposure. and the role that yasser arafat played in forming black september and planning its operations has always been open to conjecture today al jazeera can finally reveal the truth. out of five new everything. he wasn't a guitar player he was the leader of the revolution and the canister. with a foul mob. used to act in concert with arafat and when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he denies it us on. the

assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organization . a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an air base and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german

snipers when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities claim another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into the helicopter killing all of the israeli hostages to this day one of the principal planners of the operation remains under paint. the body. while death from. the hostages were all army off. we killed only army officers who were dressed in sports track suits the israelis kill unarmed civilians we did not murder children or unarmed civilians but two months before munich the israelis bombed the school killing children so the world must have a more balanced outlook. further acts of violence ensued grabbing the world headlines. in march of one nine hundred seventy three black september gunmen

stormed a diplomatic reception at the saudi arabian embassy and. the siege ensued which ended when the gunmen executed the american ambassador to sudan his deputy and the belgian chargé d'affaires. at the classified u.s. state department cables stated the operation was carried out with the full knowledge and authority of yasser arafat the report also stated one of the primary goals of the operation was to strike at the united states because of its efforts to achieve a middle east peace settlement which many arabs believe would be inimical to palestinian interests. by the end of one nine hundred seventy three the p.l.o. leaders had decided that the black september organization had outlived its usefulness. in the aftermath of the october one nine hundred seventy three war a new political climate had emerged yes a lot of fat now recognize that there was a limit to what military action could achieve and that the palestinians must

present an acceptable political program to the world if their liberation movement was to achieve its goals. defeat in jordan and a series of headline grabbing acts of violence had ensured the survival of the palestinian revolution but damaged it in the eyes of the world. a fact decided that from now on the gun would only support but not supplant his political agenda. but the spoon was not shared by other palestinian factions nor did it prove realistic as the p.l.o. was soon drawn into a civil war in a neighboring arab country. the time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy in what was to turn their draw from lebanon into one of the

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series of strikes across the gaza strip israel says it's hit twenty five targets. under scrutiny dog trump and congress battle over his controversial immigration policy of separating migrant families. and understand how much with the latest from the world cup where hosts are on the brink of reaching the knockout stages after their victory against egypt. government troops in yemen with the backing of the saudi m.r. r.t. coalition say they've taken control of her day this airport but the fighting continues the enemy army is also blocking the road between her day the province and the capital or this would cut supply lines and stop reinforcements from the whole through stronghold of. how many is on the other side of the red sea in

djibouti where much of the aid bound for yemen is stored. in the intensity of the bottle for the the international airport captured in a mobile form. the u.s. backed sodium about to call a ship has been fighting for control of the airport for a week while calling on the fighters holding them back to start and on condition that. the host response has been one of defiance prompting fears the bottle will spread into the town until humanitarian catastrophe the problem or always is highly densely populated areas trying to clear these areas from non-state actors who are embedded in the civilian population who are dug in and have nothing to lose and then you have a semi conventional military trying to clear these areas and there's always going to be difficult. as pictures often tonally displaced people in who they are continue to emerge the united arab emirates red cross and says it's sending an aid

convoy north from aden it's a gesture only criticized outside yemen thing to national rescue committee says the relief plan announced by so that it be on the united arab emirates to protect civilians living in the data as they all talk the port city is a publicist hunt meant to draw attention away from the and do suffering the offensive his calls. the united nations special envoy for human martin griffiths just left after three days of meetings with the rebels who control large parts of the country he failed to secure any peace deal the u.n. envoy to yemen. in the same request. but if you're. a u.n. envoy to yemen will be. in a data a planned over the ports to. the united nations says more than five thousand two

hundred families have fled in the past three weeks here in djibouti aid just watching the enforcing situation in that they. have not been able to deliver aid to say that since the offensive began civilians to hop in court in the crossfire on tuesday a horse the health official claimed that six people had been killed after the boss they were traveling in was bombed by the coalition forces yet despite all the fighting the port of a lifeline for millions of yemenis remains open the question is for how long we are planning to be distributions. tomorrow. we heard you've heard from of this group brace for the. destruction too. but the main port on only three for international aid is growing concern the millions of yemenis war so far survived more than three years of war hunger and disease. toleration mohamed

atta watches it at djibouti. sarin mabon is a lecturer in international relations of the middle east lancaster university joins us now from lancaster in the united kingdom good to have you with us first of all will have a whole day the city for all do you think now thank you. i fear it's just a matter of time before the city falls and before we see an escalation of violence and casualties and devastation in the city itself if you look at the makeup of the forces and the real strength of the saudi and their r.t. led coalition it seems to be just a matter of time in terms of just the basic numbers and the sheer firepower of this coalition compared to what the who things haven't and their numbers with it come at the cost of weeks perhaps months of bitter street fighting that's going to be very disruptive to life. i think you said disruptive

i would say devastating to life in the population of today there is about six hundred thousand people and we know from history from the twentieth century history of wars in urban environments that these are bloody these are in tractable on these are devastating not only in terms of differentiating between civilians and combatants but also in terms of the devastating impact it has on daily life people aren't able to go to school they're not able to go to work for fear of what will happen if they step out onto the streets aid is disrupted the economy is devastated in terms of health care basic things like that access to food and water all of this will be severely disrupted within a context in which there are an estimated eight point four million people on the verge of starvation so this will have an absolutely devastating impact on the people of the data and also of yemen broadly there are how devastating though if

a whole day there but yemen if this. problem expands the fighting expands to a day the port which is a vital lifeline for aid into the country sure. yeah exactly and your previous report showed the extent to which aid is trying to get into the country but if we think about the sheer amount of that aid going into her data port it's between seventy and eighty percent of all aid going into the country now when you've got twenty two million people of a population of about twenty eight twenty nine million who are reliant on food or on who are in dire need of aid and assistance of that twenty two million around eight point four million are on the verge of starvation then if fighting is preventing aid getting in eighty percent of the aid that the country needs then that will have a a huge impact not only in terms of the fighting words some of estimate a quarter of a million people could be killed but also in terms of the longer term human

security across yemen in terms of access to food healthcare water and the basic supplies that people need to live overall for the battlefield how much of a game changer is this i mean we're already hearing the yemeni army is cutting off the road between the province and the the houthi stronghold of sana'a you know i think it's the latest in a long line of significant symbolic battles that are obviously going to culminate in the battle for son we've seen that this this this coalition is gradually crushing all of the who thing rebels in its way and so i think it's just a matter of time before her data falls the question is how many lives will this battle cost. or a good to get your thoughts and analysis on that one. now the israeli military says it's hit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas it says the strikes followed around forty five rockets fired from the strip towards israel several of

the rockets were intercepted while three landed tensions have been high in the area since late march when palestinians began protesting at the gaza israeli border fence israeli troops have shot and killed one hundred thirty two palestinian protesters. for souter's more from west jerusalem. israeli army says that more than forty five rockets and mortars were fired from gaza and territory into israel in the course of the night and in response the israeli military struck twenty five hamas targets within the gaza strip most of them understood to be empty military compounds training areas and the like all the palestinian sources do reports at least two palestinians being injured in those strikes on the israeli side the israeli military is saying that seven of the projectiles were intercepted by the iron dome system at least three fell within gaza and territory but three did fall within populated areas in israel close to the gaza border and in one instance

there was damage to buildings and cars but no injuries reported on the israeli side all of this comes in the context of the protests that we've been seeing in the last few months the around one hundred thirty palestinians who've been killed by israeli snipers during that period the ongoing humanitarian crisis within gaza and the biggest military flare up we've seen since twenty fourteen which took place at the end of last month amid all of this of course an intensifying it is what has become a fairly major political problem for the israeli government the continued use of in century kites and balloons by people within gaza flying them on the prevailing westerly winds into israeli territory and burning large swathes of largely agricultural land this is something that many people in israel have been protesting about asking for some kind of response from the government and indeed a senior right winger in the israeli coalition government of benjamin netanyahu has

been calling for people flying those kinds to be targeted directly by the israeli military another minister saying about is not government policy they will continue the army's recommendation to increase the targeting of hamas targets in response to this practice but it is something that is bringing some pressure to bear on the israeli government nine. the side according to any number of reports wants an escalation to a full blown conflict at this stage and both do understand what have become the rules of the game over many years now but it is always possible that an escalation can take place even if neither side wants it.