Back الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين Arabic الجبهة الشعبيه لتحرير فلسطين ARZ Frente Popular pa la Lliberación de Palestina AST Народны фронт вызвалення Палесціны Byelorussian পপুলার ফ্রন্ট ফর দ্য লিবারেশন অফ ফিলিস্তিন Bengali/Bangla Talbenn ar Bobl evit Dishualded Palestina Breton Front Popular per a l'Alliberament de Palestina Catalan بەرەی جەماوەری بۆ ڕزگاریی فەلەستین CKB Lidová fronta pro osvobození Palestiny Czech Folkefronten til Palæstinas befrielse Danish

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

"PFLP" redirects here. For other meanings, see PFLP (disambiguation).

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين
General SecretaryAhmad Sa'adat
(imprisoned)
Deputy General SecretaryJamil Mezher
FounderGeorge Habash
Founded1967 (1967)
HeadquartersDamascus, Syria
Paramilitary wingAbu Ali Mustafa Brigades
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationPalestine Liberation Organization
Democratic Alliance List
International affiliationInternational Communist Seminar (defunct)
Axis of Resistance
Legislative Council (2006, defunct)
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Party flag
Website
www.pflp.ps

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP; Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: al-Jabha ash-Shaʿbīyya li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn[3]) 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.

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. The military wing of the PFLP is called the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.

The PFLP pioneered armed aircraft-hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[4] More recently, the group has participated in the Israel-Hamas war (2023-present) alongside Hamas and other allied Palestinian factions.[5][6][7][8] It has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States,[9] Japan,[10] Canada,[11] and the European Union.[12]

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. As of 2015, the PFLP boycotts participation in the PLO Executive Committee[13][14][15] and the Palestinian National Council.[16]

  1. ^ Profile: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine BBC News, 18 November 2014
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference One-state solution was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Palestinian political organization | Resistance, Activism, Liberation | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 17 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine". BBC News. 26 January 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Not only Hamas: eight factions at war with Israel in Gaza". Newsweek. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
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  8. ^ "The Order of Battle of Hamas' Izz al Din al Qassem Brigades, Part 1: North and Central Gaza". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Foreign Terrorist Organizations". U.S. Department of State (2009-2017.state.gov).
  10. ^ "MOFA: Implementation of the Measures including the Freezing of Assets against Terrorists and the Like". www.mofa.go.jp. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  11. ^ "About the listing process". www.publicsafety.gc.ca. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  12. ^ "EUR-Lex – Official Journal of the European Union". lex.europa.eu.
  13. ^ Ibrahim, Arwa (13 February 2015). "PROFILE: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine". Middle East Eye.
  14. ^ "Bringing the PFLP back into PLO fold?". Ma'an News Agency. 2 October 2010.
  15. ^ "Profile: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)". BBC News. 18 November 2014.
  16. ^ Sawafta, Ali (30 April 2018). "Palestinian forum convenes after 22 years, beset by division". reuters.com.

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