Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization, the largest being Fatah.
George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, was PFLP's Secretary General at its beginning. He had been influenced by the ideas of Constantin Zureiq and Sati' al-Husri, Arab nationalists of the 1940s and 1950s
A PFLP patrol in Jordan, 1969
PFLP May Day poster
PFLP graffiti in Bethlehem
George Habash, also known by his laqab "Al-Hakim", was a Palestinian politician and physician who founded the Marxist–Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
George Habash
Habash received an undergraduate degree in medicine from the American University of Beirut, 1951.
Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Darwish & George Habash in Syria
George Habash Square, Ramallah