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Fedayeen (Arabic: فِدائيّينfidāʼīyīn[fɪdaːʔɪjiːn] "self-sacrificers")[note A][1] is an Arabic term used to refer to various military groups willing to sacrifice themselves for a larger campaign.
^Tony Rea and John Wright (1993). The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Oxford University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-19-917170-5.
Fedayeen (Arabic: فِدائيّين fidāʼīyīn [fɪdaːʔɪjiːn] "self-sacrificers")[note A] is an Arabic term used to refer to various military groups willing to sacrifice...
Palestinian fedayeen (from the Arabic fidā'ī, plural fidā'iyūn, فدائيون) are militants or guerrillas of a nationalist orientation from among the Palestinian...
Fedayeen Saddam (Arabic: فدائيي صدام, romanized: Fidā'iyyī Saddām) was a paramilitary Fedayeen organization intensely loyal to the Ba'athist Iraqi government...
continued until 17 July 1971. After the 1967 Six-Day War, Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas relocated to Jordan and stepped up their attacks against Israel...
The Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency was an armed cross-border conflict, which peaked between 1949 and 1956, involving Israel and Palestinian militants...
but attacks by Iraqi Fedayeen continued. These attacks were uncoordinated, and resulted in firefights that killed many Fedayeen. Because of Nasiriyah's...
control of the West Bank to Israel in 1967, Palestinian fighters known as fedayeen moved their bases to Jordan and stepped up their attacks on Israel and...
Neff, 275 Palestinians were killed in a brutal house-to-house search for fedayeen (while a further 111 were reportedly killed in Rafah). Israeli authorities...
1970 the fedayeen groups started to openly call for the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy. Acting as a state within a state, the fedayeen disregarded...
throughout the Gaza Strip in an effort to root out members of the Palestinian fedayeen and the Palestinian Brigade of the Egyptian army. Israel proclaimed that...
fedayeen and forced them to evacuate from the area. In September 1970, heavy fighting erupted between Jordanian forces and the Palestinian fedayeen....
for his success in expelling the fedayeen. Meanwhile, he was widely denounced by Arabs who had supported the fedayeen. His assassins were found innocent...
the Israel Defense Forces in the 1950s and 1960s in response to frequent fedayeen attacks during which armed Arab militants infiltrated Israel from Syria...
head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, Iraq Football Association, and the Fedayeen Saddam. Uday Hussein was born in Baghdad. He was the eldest child of Iraqi...
Palestinian fedayeen, Egyptian and Jordanian military forces in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jordan, in response to the Arab offensive. A number of fedayeen attacks...
grown up in the Chatila refugee camp in Lebanon with several of his fellow fedayeen, even playing on the same football team as some of them and was described...
providing various forms of support for Palestinian fedayeen activity. After an attack by the fedayeen, Israel decided to take decisive action against Egypt...
weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover. Like several of the younger fedayeen involved in the Munich operation, Hamid had grown up in the Chatila refugee...
and outside of Iraq. These operations were ordered by Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen Saddam, supposedly Uday Hussein himself, to use martyrs as suicide bombers...
(1993). Border Wars, 1949–1956: The Sinai-Suez Wars and the end of the Fedayeen. Oxford University Press. pp. 419–425. ISBN 0-19-829262-7. Thomas G. Mitchell...
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