A convoy of Palestinian PLO soldiers salutes the crowd while leaving Beirut, as more than 10,000 fighters from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), more than 2,000 soldiers from the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), as well as 3,000 Syrian soldiers from the Arab Deterrence Force evacuate West Beirut to other Arab countries under the protection of the multinational interposition force, composed of France, the United States and Italy armies, after three months of a hard siege by the Israeli army, during the Lebanese Civil War.
