A poster by Ghassan Kanafani(1936-1972) published by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP) in 1970, Glory to the Militants Who Shattered the Fascist Tanks:
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
POPULAR FRONT MOURNS NATIONAL FIGHTER UMM NIDAL ABU AKAR
[Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:37:12 +0300]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourned on Friday the national fighter Umm Nidal Abu Akar, the olive tree of Al-Dheisha camp and an icon of Palestinian patience and resilience, who passed away at dawn.
In a eulogy statement... it said: "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the name of its General Secretary Comrade Leader Ahmad Sa'adat, his deputy Comrade Leader Jamil Mizher, members of the Political Bureau, Central Committee, and the Prisons Branch leadership, mourns the steadfast, persevering comrade fighter Malaka Abu Akar 'Umm Nidal,' mother of the heroic martyr Mohammad Abu Akar who watered the land of the Stone Intifada with his blood, and mother of the dean of administrative detainees Comrade Leader Nidal Abu Akar, who passed away at dawn on Friday in Al-Dheisha camp in Bethlehem, after a lifetime filled with giving, loyalty, and beautiful patience, and a long journey of struggle and resistance in the face of the enemy."
The Front added: "The late fighter Umm Nidal was an exceptional woman; she was not ordinary in her presence or her giving. Rather, she was a school of steadfastness and a living legend who resisted with awareness, will, and conviction. She forged from her pain and the absence of her loved ones an unyielding determination, and from her patience, a flame that illuminated the paths of the resistors. She was truly a heart pulsating with loyalty to the cause of her people."
It continued: "The deceased embodied the highest meanings of giving and sacrifice. She offered her sons as martyrs, prisoners, and wounded in the battle of dignity and freedom. She was a deeply rooted olive tree in the camp's soil, never tiring or weakening. She carried people's concerns in her heart, embraced prisoners and their mothers, and remained always a guardian of the pledge of return and a living memory narrating to generations the story of the ongoing Palestinian struggle."
It pointed out that "before her passing, she wrote with her pain and patience one of the most beautiful epics of determination when she met her imprisoned son Nidal Abu Akar after more than fifteen years of unjust administrative detention, concluding her journey of giving with a moment of reunion that encapsulates the pain of the years, the dignity of resilience, and the warmth of motherhood that remained undefeated despite all loss and pain."
The Front affirmed that "the passing of the fighter Umm Nidal represents a great loss for the entire Palestinian people, and for the captive movement in particular. She was a beacon for mothers, a support for prisoners, and a cry of truth in the face of injustice and occupation. She was a symbol of the Palestinian woman who carried the concern of the homeland in her heart and the flame of resistance in her hands. Her comrades and the people loved her, but her love for them was deeper and more sublime, because it was the love of those who promise and are promised that the path - no matter how long - will not lead the walkers astray."
It concluded the eulogy statement by saying: "As the Popular Front bids farewell to this great fighter, it extends the warmest condolences and sympathy to Comrade Fighter Leader Nidal Abu Akar, to the struggling Abu Akar family, to the people of Al-Dheisha camp, and to all who knew her and shared her path of struggle. Her biography will remain immortal in the collective memory of our people, a beacon illuminating the path of the free until victory, freedom, and return are achieved, and a democratic, independent Palestinian state is established on the entire national soil with Jerusalem as its capital."
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HE IS A FREEDOM FIGHTER
He Is A Freedom Fighter, a poster drawn by Ghassan Kanafani(1936-1972) and published circa 1969 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
PFLP MOURNS MARTYR FIGHTER, IDHA MUHAMMAD AL-SABA'UIN "GUEVARA"
2025/01/30 / abolitionmedia
The Popular Front mourns its fellow fighter, Idha Muhammad al-Saba’in (Guevara), who was martyred during the battles to confront the Zionist aggression in southern Lebanon.
With great pride and honor, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns its fellow fighter, Idha Muhammad al-Saba’in (Guevara), who was martyred while confronting the Zionist aggression in steadfast southern Lebanon.
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He joined the ranks of the Front and its fighting wing at a young age, believing in armed struggle as a path to liberation and return.
Comrade Guevara responded to the call of Gaza and the resistance, and advanced to the field alongside his comrades in the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, armed with his firm belief in the struggle and his faith that the battle is one and the destiny is shared, embodying with his courage the model of the revolutionary front fighter who does not retreat, and the stubborn refugee resistance fighter who offers his blood for the sake of Palestine and every Arab land exposed to aggression.
The Popular Front, as it bids farewell to this heroic comrade, extends its deepest condolences to his comrades, his family, the steadfast people of Nahr al-Bared camp, and the Palestinian people in Lebanon and the diaspora, affirming that the blood of the martyrs will remain a beacon illuminating the path of liberation and return, and that the resistance will continue until the occupation is expelled from every inch of our land.
Glory and immortality to the martyr hero Idaa and to all the martyrs, and we will certainly be victorious.
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RED SALUTE TO COMRADE ABU AHMED FOUAD (MAJOR GENERAL DAOUD MARAGHA)
Red Salute to Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad (Major General Daoud Maragha) – PFLP
The party said in an obituary statement: “Despite his suffering from illness in recent months, Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad remained present in his heart and mind, following the developments of the Palestinian struggle, preoccupied with following the destructive Zionist war on the Gaza Strip. He believed in the inevitability of the victory of the resistance and saw in the determination of Gaza, its people and fighters, and the bravery of its resistance, evidence of the ability of the new Palestinian generation to create new equations that put the occupation in an existential predicament.”
The Party pledged to the masses of the heroic Palestine people, the free people of our nation and the world, our late comrade, and the blood of our martyrs and heroes across the battlefields to remain loyal to those who paved the path of freedom with their blood.
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MOUSA QOUS 1962-2025
Mousa Qous was a leader of the small but storied Afro-Palestinian community in Jerusalem’s Old City, representing it in international anti-racism forums and empowering its beleaguered youth. A journalist, skilled translator, and former prisoner, he decoded Palestinian politics for innumerable outsiders, applying a deeply principled critique and gentle humor in his approach...
On October 21, 1991, Qous was arrested again while working as a reporter with the English-language weekly al-Fajr, published in Jerusalem and Washington, DC, as a companion to the Arabic newspaper of the same name, which was an unofficial voice of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).20 A month later, he was sentenced by the Lod Military Court on November 19, 1991, to four years in prison for membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), for instructing others to write graffiti and organizing food distributions.21 His case was taken up by the Committee to Protect Journalists.22
“He was a man who did not live for himself, but for the greater cause,” said a close acquaintance. “He stressed that in light of an unjust reality that has no stability, we cannot be held hostage by delusions; it is our duty as individuals to give up personal comfort for the sake of a higher and important cause.”23
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THE POLITICS OF LIFE
We leftists can start with the left. We should talk much more about the Jabha Shabbiye li-Tahrir Falastin, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, because at this point of intense destruction, the PFLP is present and puts up resistance to the best of its ability. This is not a left in government – this is a left that fights from the position of the most extreme powerlessness and exposure to the most overwhelmingly powerful forces of destruction, and precisely for this reason it deserves special respect and appreciation. When in early November 2024, the occupation carried out a sweep of abductions in the West Bank and Lebanon, the mission specifically targeted the Front and arrested more than 60 of its militants – an index of the threat it is perceived to pose.
The Front has offered martyrs on every Palestinian frontline of Toufan al-Aqsa. Consider the following tiny sample of examples. Abed Tahani, a comrade of the Front, journalist, founder of the independent media network Taqadomy (‘Progressive’) was killed in Jabaliya alongside his brother Abdelfattah, fighter in the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, ten days after October 7. As the Front wrote in a tribute to Abed Tahani: ‘Abed banged on the walls of the tank, as did Gaza’s resistance on October 7’. That phrase banging on the walls of the tank is a reference to Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun. I have argued previously in Salvage that this image paints the most striking picture of resistance in a world on fire.
Suleiman Abdul Karim al-Ahmed, a field commander of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades on the northern battlefield, was martyred a year after October 7 on the border with Palestine while resisting the invasion of Lebanon. Mohammed Abdel Aaal, head of security for the Front, a novelist, organiser, military operative, was assassinated in Beirut in autumn 2024. He was singled out for his role in building cells of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in the West Bank – when I visited Beirut in April, his brother Marwan, leader of the PFLP in Beirut, could still receive me openly in party offices in mukhayam Mar Elias; he has since been forced underground but he sent out a communique mourning his martyred brother:
The heart gets lost in the chaos of war. Even the evening news for the whole family is about war – the destruction of homes, missile strikes, the levelling of neighbourhoods, the burning of refugee tents. We cannot remove war from our lives. We didn’t learn its arts; rather, it imposes itself on our daily lives and teaches us its lessons, so that we may survive erasure and extermination, and remain alive for the name that Palestine deserves.
Continuing the resistance against all this destruction is now an affirmation of the very possibility of life itself. Abdaljawad Omar, who has become a major interpreter of the resistance in this moment and who appears in this issue of Salvage, recently captured the point in an interview with Jewish Currents: ‘resistance is less about achieving a specific endpoint and more about affirming a presence, a refusal to be erased’.
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