Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين – القيادة العامة, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn – al-Qiyādah al-ʻĀmmah) 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 (2011–2024) fighting on the side of the Ba'athist regime...

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