Khaled at the Beirut International Forum for Resistance, Anti-Imperialism, Solidarity between Peoples, and Alternatives, 2009
Born
(1944-04-09) April 9, 1944 (age 80)
Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Organization
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Known for
Pro-Palestinian militancy
Movement
Arab Nationalist Movement
Leila Khaled (Arabic: ليلى خالد, Arabic pronunciation:[ˈlajlaˈxaːled] born April 9, 1944) is a Palestinian refugee,[1] former militant, and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Khaled came to public attention for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September in Jordan. The first woman to hijack an airplane,[2] she was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members.[3][4]
^"'I Had to Be the Voice of Women': The First Female Hijacker Shares Her Story". VICE. August 29, 1969. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
^Notorious Palestinian Plane Hijacker to Promote BDS in South Africa Archived February 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine "Notorious Palestinian Plane Hijacker to Promote BDS in South Africa"
^MacDonald, Eileen (1991). "Leila Khaled". Shoot the Women First. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-41596-3.
^Cooper, Abraham; Schatz, Daniel (March 11, 2011). "Something rotten in Sweden – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews". Ynetnews. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
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keffiyeh is LeilaKhaled, a female member of the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Several photographs of Khaled circulated...
gender, and nationality. Radicalized by escalating events, women such as LeilaKhaled, joined the Palestinian Resistance Movement (PRM) and took up armed struggle...
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the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel through their military spokesman Abu Khaled. On 7 October, during the attack on Israel, they claimed to have lost three...
culminated in the failed hijacking of an El Al 707 by Patrick Arguello and LeilaKhaled on 6 September 1970, as part of the Dawson's Field hijackings. Source:...
prevent a conference from using the videoconferencing platform to host LeilaKhaled, invoking the platform's terms of service and anti-terrorism laws. In...
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(GUPS) at the Cairo University (1952-1956), whilst another co-founder, Khaled Yashruti, then a 22-year-old student, was the GUPS head in Beirut. Upon...
Airlines (TWA) Rome–Athens–Tel Aviv flight. On 29 August two operatives, LeilaKhaled and Salim Issawi, hijacked the aircraft. Rabin was not aboard, but American...
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Palestine sympathizer who wanted to influence the British government to free LeilaKhaled. In August 2000, a Gulf Air Airbus 320 (Gulf Air Flight 072) from Cairo...
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