10 Facts About Amal Movement

The Amal Movement is, by a small margin, the largest Shia party in parliament, having fourteen representatives to Hezbollah's thirteen.

Amal Movement had support from many confessions, but membership remained mainly within the Shia confession and was considered as a definitive Shia force against the traditional Shia families hegemony at the time.

Amal Movement became one of the most important Shi'a Muslim militias during the Lebanese Civil War.

Amal Movement fought a long campaign against Palestinian refugees during the Lebanese Civil War.

Amal Movement was succeeded by Hussein el-Husseini as leader of Amal.

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Subsequently, in 1980, el-Husseini resigned from the leadership of Amal Movement and was replaced by Nabih Berri, marking the entry of Amal Movement in the Lebanese Civil War.

In 1989 Amal Movement accepted the Taif agreement in order to end the civil war.

On May 28, 1985, Amal Movement suffered a suicide attack by four young female Palestinian suicide bombers in Shatila.

Palestinian forces managed to occupy the Amal Movement-controlled town of Maghdouche on the eastern hills of Sidon to open the road to Rashidiyye.

Amal Movement was a strong supporter of Syria after 1990 and endorsed Syria's military presence in Lebanon.