Two thousand Fatah fighters managed to enter Syria.

A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters landed their boats near a major coastal road connecting the city of Haifa with Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Arafat did not return to Lebanon after his second expulsion, though many Fatah fighters did.

Fatah fighters stormed a Hamas-affiliated university in the Gaza Strip.

He says the Fatah fighters can be absorbed into a reformed Palestinian security service, with regular uniforms and salaries.

The latest deaths included a 12-year-old boy fatally shot late Saturday, three Hamas fighters killed Sunday and one Fatah fighter who died of injuries sustained previously, Palestinian hospital officials said.

The two Fatah fighters were reportedly caught in possession of weapons in an area patrolled by the army in southern Lebanon two weeks ago.

The combined force was engaged in heavy fighting against the central brigade of the 1st division and a number of Fatah fighters.

About 20 Jordanian soldiers and policemen and 20 Fatah fighters were killed, and 27 were taken prisoner.

The Jordanian Army eventually backed Fatah fighters forcing Israel to withdraw its troops without achieving its strategic goal-destruction of the Palestinian fedayeen base.