Global InformationPopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine information
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين | |
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| General Secretary | Ahmad Sa'adat (imprisoned) |
| Deputy General Secretary | Jamil Mezher |
| Founder | George Habash |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Paramilitary wing | Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades |
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| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Palestine Liberation Organization Democratic Alliance List |
| International affiliation | International Communist Seminar (defunct) Axis of Resistance |
| Legislative Council (2006, defunct) | 3 / 132 |
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| www.pflp.ps | |
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: "al-Jabha al-Shabiyah li-Tahrir Filastin" or "al-Jabhah al-Shaʿbīyyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn"[3])[a] is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization, the largest being Fatah.
Ahmad Sa'adat, who was sentenced in 2006 to 30 years in an Israeli prison, has served as General Secretary of the PFLP since 2001. The PFLP currently considers both the Fatah-led government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip illegal because elections to the Palestinian National Authority have not been held since 2006.[4] As of 2015[update], the PFLP boycotts participation in the PLO Executive Committee[5][6][7] and the Palestinian National Council.[8]
The PFLP has generally taken a hard-line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fatah. It does not recognize Israel, and promotes a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in a "democratic Palestine", where "Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination". The military wing of the PFLP is called the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.
The PFLP is well known for pioneering armed aircraft-hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[9] According to PFLP Politburo member[10] and former aircraft-hijacker Leila Khaled, the PFLP does not see suicide bombing as a form of resistance to occupation or as a strategic action or policy and no longer carries out such attacks. The PFLP has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States,[11] Japan,[12] Canada,[13] and the European Union.[14]
- ^ Profile: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine BBC News, 18 November 2014
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Fatah slams Hamas' intention to reshuffle its deposed government". People's Daily Online. 26 December 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2012.[dead link] [dead link]
- ^ Ibrahim, Arwa (13 February 2015). "PROFILE: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine". Middle East Eye.
- ^ "Bringing the PFLP back into PLO fold?". Ma'an News Agency. 2 October 2010.
- ^ "Profile: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)". BBC News. 18 November 2014.
- ^ Sawafta, Ali (30 April 2018). "Palestinian forum convenes after 22 years, beset by division". reuters.com.
- ^ "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine". BBC News. 26 January 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ^ "Ms. Khaled is a member of the Politburo of the PFLP [...]". Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ "Foreign Terrorist Organizations". U.S. Department of State.
- ^ "MOFA: Implementation of the Measures including the Freezing of Assets against Terrorists and the Like". Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ "About the listing process". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ "EUR-Lex – Official Journal of the European Union".
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