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===First Intifada===
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In 1987, the [[First Intifada]] broke out in the [[West Bank]] and Gaza Strip. The Intifada caught the PLO by surprise,<ref>[http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2004/11/11arafat.html Yasser Arafat obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111102436/http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2004/11/11arafat.html|date=11 January 2017}}, socialistworld.net (Committee for a Worker's International) 11 November 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2006.</ref> and the leadership abroad could only indirectly influence the events. A new local leadership emerged, the [[Unified National Leadership of the Uprising]] (UNLU), comprising many leading Palestinian factions. After [[Hussein of Jordan|King Hussein]] of Jordan proclaimed the administrative and legal separation of the West Bank from Jordan in 1988,<ref>King Hussein, [http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/88_july31.html Address to the Nation], Amman, Jordan, 31 July 1988. On the Royal Hashemit Court's official site in tribute to King Hussein. Retrieved 5 December 2006.</ref> the Palestine National Council adopted the [[Palestinian Declaration of Independence]] in [[Algiers]], proclaiming an independent [[Palestine]]. The declaration made reference to UN resolutions without explicitly mentioning Security Council [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 242|Resolutions 242]] and [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 338|338]].

A month later, Arafat declared in [[Geneva]] that the PLO would support a solution to the conflict based on these Resolutions. Effectively, the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist within pre-1967 borders, with the understanding that the Palestinians would be allowed to set up their own state in the West Bank and Gaza. The United States accepted this clarification by Arafat and began to allow diplomatic contacts with PLO officials.<!--While the Intifada many members of PLO organizations take a part at the activities or organized them, especially as "Unified Intifada Leadership" and its branches. At the beginning that activities weren't organized by the PLO itself. But, later the activities (especially the violent ones, like killing Israelis or collaborators) were more and more organized by the PLO. IS THERE A SOURCE FOR THIS? The UIL paid allegiance to the PLO, but how directly influenced it was by the PLO needs to be clarified. That the PLO was responsible for the more violent acts needs a source, please/!--> The Proclamation of Independence did not lead to statehood, although over 100 states [[International recognition of Palestine|recognized]] the State of Palestine.