Editing Fedayeen (section)

===Palestine===
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[[File:Fadayun attack Tel Mond.jpg|thumb|130px|A demolished Israeli farmhouse, after a fedayeen attack (1956).]]

[[Palestinian fedayeen]] are militants of a nationalist orientation from among the [[Palestinian people]]. The fedayeen made efforts to infiltrate territory in [[Israel]] in order to strike military<ref name=MFA0>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Which+Came+First-+Terrorism+or+Occupation+-+Major.htm
| title=Which Came First- Terrorism or Occupation - Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis Prior to the 1967 Six-Day War | date=31 March 2002 | publisher=Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs }}</ref> as well as civilian<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stein|first1=Leslie|title=The Making of Modern Israel; 1948-1967|date=2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|pages=171–172}}</ref><ref name="Israel; A History">{{cite book|last1=Shapira|first1=Anita|title=Israel; A History|page=271|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh9okmg63ssC&q=%22nahal+oz%22++%22Moshe+dayan%22+++yearning+for+peace&pg=PA271|access-date=23 September 2014|isbn=9781611683530|year=2012}}</ref><ref name="Gaza: A History">{{cite book|last1=Filiu|first1=Jean-Pierre|title=Gaza: A History|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=92}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Aloni|first1=Udi|title=Samson the Non-European|journal=Studies in Gender and Sexuality|date=2011|volume=12| issue = 2|pages=124–133|doi=10.1080/15240657.2011.559441|s2cid=143362550}}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Kn1lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8okNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4875,2798629 Four Killed In Ambush] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219223254/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Kn1lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8okNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4875,2798629 |date=2020-02-19 }}, [[Vancouver Sun]]</ref><ref name="Israeli Counterterrorism">{{cite book|last1=Byman|first1=Daniel|title=A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/highpricetriumph0000byma/page/22 22]|url=https://archive.org/details/highpricetriumph0000byma|url-access=registration|access-date=14 October 2014|isbn=9780199831746}}</ref><ref name=morris>Benny Morris, ''The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited'', [[Cambridge University Press]], Cambridge, England, 2004, provides the most up-to-date breakdown of the reasons for the flight</ref> targets in the aftermath of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]. Some groups of fedayeen find their origin among the refugee camps of the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In these camps the fedayeen would find common cause between each other and the local population, such as in Lebanon. This also enabled them to blend in between the civilians and wage a [[Guerrilla warfare|guerilla war]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khayyat |first=Munira |url= |title=A Landscape of War |date=2022-11-22 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-39000-3 |pages=40 |language=en |doi=10.2307/j.ctv2zp50qx}}</ref> 

Members of these groups were living in the [[Gaza Strip]] and the [[West Bank]] or in neighboring [[Lebanon]] and [[Syria]].<ref name="HR" /> The prescense of these groups in these countries would however draw attention of the Israeli military which used heavy tactics to flush them out. They also did this in order to turn the civilian population against them, this was succesfull in the case of south Lebanon.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Khayyat |first=Munira |url= |title=A Landscape of War |date=2022-11-22 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-39000-3 |pages=40-41 |language=en |doi=10.2307/j.ctv2zp50qx}}</ref>

Prior to Israel's seizure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the [[Six-Day War]], these areas, originally destined for a Palestinian state, were under Jordanian and Egyptian occupation, respectively. After Israel's [[Operation Black Arrow]] in 1955, the Palestinian fedayeen were incorporated into an Egyptian army unit.<ref name="HR">Haya Regev, Dr. Avigail Oren, The operations in the 1950s, University of Tel Aviv, 1995</ref><ref name="JBG">[[John Bagot Glubb|Glubb, John Bagot]]. ''A Soldier with the Arabs''. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. p. 289.</ref><ref name="MFA1">[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Israel+in+Maps/1948-1967-+Major+Terror+Attacks.htm 1948-1967- Major Terror Attacks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822045847/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Israel+in+Maps/1948-1967-+Major+Terror+Attacks.htm |date=2018-08-22 }}. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved on 2010-09-29.</ref><ref name="MFA2">[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Which+Came+First-+Terrorism+or+Occupation+-+Major.htm Which Came First- Terrorism or Occupation – Major] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101124846/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Which+Came+First-+Terrorism+or+Occupation+-+Major.htm |date=2018-11-01 }}. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved on 2010-09-29.</ref><ref name="JAFI1">[http://jafi.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/Jewish+Time/Festivals+and+Memorial+Days/Remembrance+Day/Background.htm Remembrance Day Background] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024000815/http://jafi.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/Jewish+Time/Festivals+and+Memorial+Days/Remembrance+Day/Background.htm |date=2014-10-24 }}. jafi.org (2005-05-15). Retrieved on 2012-05-09.</ref><ref name="JAFI2">[http://jafi.org/NR/exeres/86314008-E729-4282-AD78-8B0C0E24B36B Fedayeen Attacks 1951–1956] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715032057/http://jafi.org/NR/exeres/86314008-E729-4282-AD78-8B0C0E24B36B |date=2015-07-15 }}. jafi.org (2005-05-15). Retrieved on 2012-05-09.</ref><ref name="ADL">[http://www.adl.org/ISRAEL/Record/sinai.asp The 1956 Sinai Campaign] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016201124/http://www.adl.org/ISRAEL/Record/sinai.asp |date=2007-10-16 }}. Adl.org. Retrieved on 2010-09-29.</ref> In the year 1969 the [[Cairo Agreement (1969)|Cairo Agreement]] was signed which sanctioned Lebanon an battlefield. This agreement was important since it sanctioned the use of South-Lebanon as a battlefield. Since the area was now a battlefield the [[Palestinian fedayeen]] could now use it as base of operations against the Israeli forces.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khayyat |first=Munira |url= |title=A Landscape of War |date=2022-11-22 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-39000-3 |pages=45 |language=en |doi=10.2307/j.ctv2zp50qx}}</ref>

During this time (1948 – c. 1980), the word entered international usage and was frequently used in the Arab media as a synonym for great militancy.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} In the Israeli Hebrew press of this time the term was associated with [[terrorism]].<ref name=MFA0/> Since the mid-1960s and the rise of more organized and specific militant groups, such as the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], the word has fallen out of usage, but not in the historical context.