The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist revolutionary organization that was formed in 1967 by Palestinian Christian communist George Habash. The PFLP pioneered aircraft hijackings during the 1960s and 1970s, but the group renounced the use of suicide bombers, as the group did not agree with killing innocent civilians. The PFLP would split into multiple camps during the 1970s, with PFLP-EO and PFLP-GC breaking off from the mainstream organization due to the PFLP's lack of interest in international operations against Israel and its allies in Western Europe. Wadie Haddad's faction of the PFLP would carry out several notable attacks in France and England, among other places, and the PFLP was accused of assisting with the execution of the 1972 Munich massacre. The PFLP's Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades have fought against Israel during the intifadas of the 1990s-2000s, and the PFLP has been funded by Iran ever since Hamas moved away from Iran due to its support of the Syrian Opposition during the Syrian Civil War; the PFLP supports the government of Syria, which has supplied the PFLP with refuge and arms throughout the Arab-Israeli Conflict. PFLP-GC forces would go so far as to volunteer to fight alongside the Ba'athist government of Syria during the civil war, with Ahmed Jibril being one of the government's biggest supporters. The PFLP (as a political party) holds 3/132 seats in the Legislative Council of Palestine, and the PFLP believes that both Fatah and Hamas are illegal due to Fatah's acceptance of Israel's existance and due to Hamas' rejection of the Palestinian Authority. The group was a member of the "rejectionist" faction of Palestinian politics, as it rejected any peace deal with Israel in favor of a one-state solution and the destruction of the Israeli state.
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