Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command
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.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين – القيادة العامة | |
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| General Secretary | Talal Naji |
| Founder | Ahmed Jibril |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Split from | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Paramilitary wing | Jihad Jibril Brigades |
| Membership | 500-1,000 (2004) 800 (2019) |
| Ideology | Arab nationalism Palestinian nationalism Anti-Zionism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Alliance of Palestinian Forces |
| International affiliation | Axis of Resistance |
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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.