Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - القيادة العامة) is a left-wing Palestinian nationalist organization.1The group was founded in 1968 as a splinter group from the PFLP . Ahmed Jibril , one of the PFLP's early leaders, broke away to form the PFLP-GC. The new group initially declared that its focus would be military, not political. Although the group was initially a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization , it has always opposed Yasser Arafat and opposes any political settlement with Israel ; as such, it has never participated in the peace process. Both the PFLP-GC and PFLP left the PLO in 1974 to oppose what they saw as the PLO's move towards an accommodation with Israel. The PFLP-GC has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union .2
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Logo of PFLP-GC The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - القيادة العامة) is a Palestinian nationalist organization, backed by Syria and Iran .It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S. , European Union , Australia and Canada .
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - القيادة العامة) or PFLP-GC is a small Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria .It was founded in 1968 by Ahmed Jibril after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).In the 1970s and 1980s it was involved in the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon and launched a number of attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians; including the Avivim school bus massacre (1970), the bombing of Swissair Flight 330 (1970), the Kiryat Shmona massacre (1974) and the Night of the Gliders (1987).Since the late 1980s it has been largely inactive, but during the Syrian Civil War it has been fighting on the side of the Syrian government.The group has a paramilitary wing called the Jihad Jibril Brigades.
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( ) or PFLP-GC is a Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria . It was founded in 1968 by Ahmed Jibril after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) based on claims that it was producing impotent intellectuals, and not making any meaningful progress in terms of armed struggle to liberate Palestine. In the 1970s and 1980s it was involved in the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon and launched a number of attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians; including the Avivim school bus massacre (1970), the bombing of Swissair Flight 330 (1970), the Kiryat Shmona massacre (1974) and the Night of the Gliders (1987). Since the late 1980s PFLP-GC had been largely inactive in military activities, but re-emerged during the Syrian Civil War fighting on the side of the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic . The group has a paramilitary wing called the Jihad Jibril Brigades. "PFLP-GC divided on Syria stance" Deprecated link archived 13 April 2013 at archive.today .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Syrian-based Palestinian nationalist organisation Not to be confused with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( ) or PFLP-GC is a Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria . It was founded in 1968 by Ahmed Jibril after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) based on claims that it was producing impotent intellectuals, and not making any meaningful progress in terms of armed struggle to liberate Palestine. In the 1970s and 1980s it was involved in the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon and launched a number of attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians; including the Avivim school bus massacre (1970), the bombing of Swissair Flight 330 (1970), the Kiryat Shmona massacre (1974) and the Night of the Gliders (1987). Since the late 1980s PFLP-GC had been largely inactive in military activities, but re-emerged during the Syrian Civil War fighting on the side of the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic . The group has a paramilitary wing called the Jihad Jibril Brigades. "PFLP-GC divided on Syria stance" Deprecated link archived 13 April 2013 at archive.today .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Syrian-based Palestinian nationalist organisation Not to be confused with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( Arabic : الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين – القيادة العامة ) or PFLP-GC is a Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria . It is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was founded in 1968 by Ahmed Jibril after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) based on ideological and internal disputes. In the 1970s and 1980s it was involved in the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon and launched a number of attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians; including the Avivim school bus massacre (1970), the bombing of Swissair Flight 330 (1970), the Kiryat Shmona massacre (1974) and the Night of the Gliders (1987). Since the late 1980s PFLP-GC had been largely inactive in military activities, but re-emerged during the Syrian Civil War (2011-present) fighting on the side of the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic . The group has a paramilitary wing called the Jihad Jibril Brigades . It has been designated a terrorist organization by Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, and European Union."MOFA: Implementation of the Measures including the Freezing of Assets against Terrorists and the Like" .Palestinian secular terrorism : profiles of Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and the Democratic Front for the Liberatiom of Palestine . "PFLP-GC divided on Syria stance" Deprecated link archived 13 April 2013 at archive.today .
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left-wing palestinian nationalist organization
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palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in syria
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