Back جبهة التحرير الفلسطينية Arabic جبهة التحرير الفلسطينيه ARZ Frente pola Lliberación de Palestina AST Front per a l'Alliberament de Palestina Catalan Palestinská osvobozenecká fronta Czech Palästinensische Befreiungsfront German Frente para la Liberación de Palestina Spanish Front de libération de la Palestine French החזית לשחרור פלסטין HE Front Pembebasan Palestina ID
Palestinian Liberation Front جبهة التحرير الفلسطينية | |
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| Leader | Wasel Abu Yousef |
| Founded | 1959[1] |
| Headquarters | Ramallah, Palestine |
| Ideology | Ba'athism[2] Secularism[3] Arab socialism[2] Palestinian nationalism[3] |
| Political position | Left-wing[4] to far-left[5] |
| National affiliation | PLO |
The Palestinian Liberation Front (Arabic: جبهة التحرير الفلسطينية, PLF), also known as the Palestine Liberation Front - Abu Abbas Faction or Palestine Liberation Front,[6] is a minor left-wing Palestinian political faction.[7] Since 1997, the PLF has been a designated terrorist organization by the United States[8] and by Canada since 2003.[9] The PLF has also been banned in Japan.[10]
In 1996, the party took part in the 1996 Palestinian general election, winning 0.11% of the vote.[5] The party also ran in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election under the name ‘Martyr Abu Abbas’, and received 0.30% of the vote.[11]
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- ^ a b "Leftist Parties of the World". broadleft.org. 2004. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ "Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations; Notice". Federal Register. 62 (195). October 8, 1997.
- ^ Baker, Alan (14 July 2016). "International Funding for Salaries and Benefits to Terrorists". Jerusalem Issue Briefs. 16 (10). Institute for Contemporary Affairs.
- ^ "Foreign Terrorist Organizations". the U.S. State Department. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Currently listed entities". 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Implementation of the Measures including the Freezing of Assets against Terrorists and the Like (Archived copy)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ^ "ELECTION FOR PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL". electionguide.org. Retrieved 2017-09-15.