Published : 07-07-2021
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) mourned the death of its secretary-general Ahmed Jibril, who was pronounced dead on August 7 at a Damascus hospital.
The PFLP-GC was one of the main guerrilla groups fighting against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s and more recently backed Syria's government in the 10-year conflict.
Ahmed Jibril was born in 1938 in Yazor village, in the occupied Palestinian city of Yaffa. He fled to Syria with his family during the Nakba of 1948, when Israeli militias forced Palestinians out of their lands.
He studied at Damascus schools and graduated from the Military College in Cairo in 1959. He was appointed a lieutenant and then an officer in the Syrian army’s engineering corps. He was laid off in 1963.
Ahmed Jibril had founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command in 1968. In 1984, the group severed its ties with the Palestine Liberation Organization and established an independent office in Damascus.
Jibril founded his PFLP-GC in 1968, after splitting from the PFLP of Palestinian nationalist leader George Habash.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) mourned the death of its secretary-general Ahmed Jibril, who was pronounced dead on August 7 at a Damascus hospital.
The PFLP-GC was one of the main guerrilla groups fighting against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s and more recently backed Syria's government in the 10-year conflict.
Ahmed Jibril was born in 1938 in Yazor village, in the occupied Palestinian city of Yaffa. He fled to Syria with his family during the Nakba of 1948, when Israeli militias forced Palestinians out of their lands.
He studied at Damascus schools and graduated from the Military College in Cairo in 1959. He was appointed a lieutenant and then an officer in the Syrian army’s engineering corps. He was laid off in 1963.
Ahmed Jibril had founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command in 1968. In 1984, the group severed its ties with the Palestine Liberation Organization and established an independent office in Damascus.
Jibril founded his PFLP-GC in 1968, after splitting from the PFLP of Palestinian nationalist leader George Habash.
