Battle of Amman | |||||||
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Part of Black September | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Hussein bin Talal Habis Majali | Yasser Arafat | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Royal Army |
PLO Fatah Popular Front Democratic Front | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
5,000 to 10,000 as of 22 September[1] |
The Battle of Amman[2] (Arabic: معركة عمّان) took place in September 1970 between forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (the Fedayeen) and the Jordanian Army. Hussein's government considers that the casus belli of the battle is the hijacking of planes carried out by the Popular Front on 6 September. On 17 September, the army launched a big attack against a Palestinian commandos bases in Amman.[3]
The United States was in favor of Israeli intervention to aid Hussein, but this proved unnecessary. The violence was brough to an end after the parties agreed to a ceasefire agremeent signed in Cairo, Egypt.[4]