On June 5, 1967 a new wave of refugees was created when Israeli forces occupied the rest of Palestine, as well as the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and the Syrian Golan Heights. The Israeli government annexed East Jerusalem and included it within the boundaries of its Jerusalem municipality. It established a military government in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, which continues to this day. Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have been characterized by the confiscation on land and water, the construction of Jewish settlements and the imposition of harsh military rule of the Palestinian civilian population.
The stark defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 war gave new popularity to Palestinian resistance groups organized among the Palestinian refugee community. These groups took control of the Palestine Liberation Organization, formed in 1964 by the Arab states. Yasser Arafat, head of the Fateh group, became the Chairman of the PLO. The PLO became the institutional vehicle for attracting and directing the national aspirations of the Palestinians, and quickly established itself as the central force in the Palestinian Diaspora. The Summit of Arab Heads of State in Rabat in October 1974 recognized the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. This United Nations General Assembly bolstered this status by inviting Arafat to give a speech before it on 13 November 1974; the same General Assembly session admitted the PLO as an observer at the UN and its specialized agencies.
Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (during Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day). Israel suffered heavy casualties but managed to repulse the attacks. It even pushed Egyptian forces back across the Suez Canal and occupied its west bank before the belligerents agreed to another cease-fire arranged by the United Nations. In a series of 1974 agreements Israel withdrew its forces back across the canal into Sinai and came to cease-fire terms with Syria. In the Camp David Accords of March 1979, Egypt and Israel finally ended the war between them. Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, and Egypt recognized Israel's right to exist.
Palestine after The six day war 
