sentences:  Although the Palestinians were not victorious on their own, King Hussein let the Palestinians take credit.However, the battle of Karameh provided Fatah with a propaganda boost.The chief of bureau of the then Israeli Foreign ministry Gideon Rafael later said that "The operation gave an enormous lift to Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization and irrevocably implanted the Palestine problem onto the international agenda, no longer as a humanitarian issue of homeless refugees, but as a claim to Palestinian statehood".