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Israel State Archives, “The Cairo Agreement: Israel’s Negotiations With the PLO, October 1993-May 1994”

Israel State Archives, published March 12, 20220, updated December 2022

“The Cairo Agreement: Israel’s Negotiations With the PLO, October 1993-May 1994,” a collection of documents on the diplomacy between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization from the signing of the Oslo Accords’ Declaration of Principles on September 13, 1993, through the May 1994 Cairo Agreement, which arranged Palestinian autonomy in Jericho and the Gaza Strip. The narrative overview features 29 documents in English.

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