The National Guidance Committee (also known as the National Steering Committee; Arabic: لجنة التوجيه الوطني[1]) was a Palestinian political organization formed in response to the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel in the late 1970s.
[2][1] The committee was formed by representatives from nationalist groups, municipalities, trade unions, and professional syndicates officially in November 1978.
[3][4] Other members were journalists, students, welfare agencies, and the Supreme Islamic Council.
Despite Israeli repression...one example being the deportation of Palestinian mayors from the oPt in 1980...the guiding framework of civil resistance embodied by the Palestinian National Front and the NGC were critical to the mass mobilization of the first intifada..."[1]Tamari also notes the left-leaning stance of the NGC in contrast to Fatah and "pro-Jordanian figures in the West Bank.
[1] Fischbach also argues that "the establishment of the committee was an indication of the growing importance of the Occupied Territories in the wider PLO strategic thinking, as well as of its new generation of leaders.