Back الجبهة الديمقراطية لتحرير فلسطين Arabic Frente Democráticu pola Lliberación de Palestina AST Front Democràtic per a l'Alliberament de Palestina Catalan Demokratická fronta pro osvobození Palestiny Czech Demokratiske Front for Befrielse af Palæstina Danish Demokratische Front zur Befreiung Palästinas German FDLP Esperanto Frente Democrático por la Liberación de Palestina Spanish جبهه دموکراتیک برای آزادی فلسطین Persian Front démocratique pour la libération de la Palestine French
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Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين | |
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| Leader | Nayef Hawatmeh |
| Founder | Nayef Hawatmeh Yasser Abed Rabbo[1][2] |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Split from | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Youth wing | Palestinian Democratic Youth Union |
| Paramilitary wing | National Resistance Brigades |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Palestine Liberation Organization[5] Democratic Alliance List |
| International affiliation | Axis of Resistance |
| Legislative Council | 1 / 132
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP; Arabic: الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: 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 1969 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 ongoing Israel-Hamas war (2023–present) which has seen the DFLP fight alongside Hamas and other allied Palestinian factions.[7][8]
- ^ Abd Rabbo, Yasir, pp. 6-7. Michael R. Fischbach, Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Infobase Publishing, 2005
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bollens, Scott A. (2000). On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. State University of New York Press. p. 366.
- ^ Velez, Federico (2015). Latin American Revolutionaries and the Arab World: From the Suez Canal to the Arab Spring. Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 106.
- ^ a b Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ ‘’Aziya i Afrika segodnya’’ – cited in edition ‘’Välispanoraam 1972’’, Tallinn, 1973, lk 129 (‘’Foreign Panorama 1972’’)
- ^ "Not only Hamas: eight factions at war with Israel in Gaza". Newsweek. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
- ^ "With Al-Qassam and Al-Quds Brigades, four other armed Palestinian factions are fighting Israel in Gaza". The New Arab. 22 May 2024.