Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين
LeaderNayef Hawatmeh
FounderNayef Hawatmeh
Yasser Abed Rabbo[1][2]
Founded1968
Split fromPopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
HeadquartersDamascus, Syria
Paramilitary wingNational Resistance Brigades
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationPalestine Liberation Organization[5]
Democratic Alliance List
International affiliationAxis of Resistance
Legislative Council
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Party flag
Website
www.alhourriah.org

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP; Arabic: الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين, el-Jabha ed-Dīmūqrāṭiyya li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and Maoist organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front, or al-Jabha al-Dīmūqrāṭiyya (الجبهة الديموقراطية). It is a member organization of the Palestine Liberation Organization,[5] the Alliance of Palestinian Forces and the Democratic Alliance List.

The group was founded in 1968 by Nayef Hawatmeh, splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It maintains a paramilitary wing, the National Resistance Brigades. The DFLP's declared goal is to "create a people's democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination, a state without classes and national oppression, a state which allows Arabs and Jews to develop their national culture."[6]

One of the attacks for which the DFLP is best known is the 1974 Ma'alot massacre in which 25 schoolchildren and teachers were killed. Although the National Resistance Brigades have fighters based in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, these fighters have been engaged in relatively few military operations since the First Intifada, until the 2023-4 Gaza war.

  1. ^ Abd Rabbo, Yasir, pp. 6-7. Michael R. Fischbach, Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Infobase Publishing, 2005
  2. ^ Palestinian National Authority: The PA Ministerial Cabinet List: April 2003 – October 2003 Archived 15 December 2003 at the Wayback Machine. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. Archived on 27 September 2007.
  3. ^ Bollens, Scott A. (2000). On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. State University of New York Press. p. 366.
  4. ^ Velez, Federico (2015). Latin American Revolutionaries and the Arab World: From the Suez Canal to the Arab Spring. Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 106.
  5. ^ a b Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Encyclopædia Britannica
  6. ^ ‘’Aziya i Afrika segodnya’’ – cited in edition ‘’Välispanoraam 1972’’, Tallinn, 1973, lk 129 (‘’Foreign Panorama 1972’’)

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