21 August 1982
✍The PLO leaves Lebanon
PartiesPLO / FatahUnited StatesIsrael / IDF
On 21 August 1982 PLO fighters began leaving Beirut by sea and land under the Philip Habib agreement, after a siege of more than two months. Arafat left for Tunis on 30 August, and some 11,000 fighters were evacuated to eight Arab countries.