PFLP RE-ELECTS DETAINED SECRETARY-GENERAL AHMED SA'ADAT

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Friday the re-election of Ahmed Sa'adat as its Secretary-General, who is serving a term of 30 years in Israeli jails, a press release confirmed.

In the press release, the PFLP announced that the eighth national conference re-elected Sa'adat as the group's secretary-general and Jamil Mezher from Gaza as his deputy....

It added: "They reiterated the historical Palestinian rights and rejected all the bargains that undermine these rights. They also reiterated the use of all means, including armed resistance, to defeat the Zionist state and liberate the land of Palestine."

Sa'adat (69) from the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh has been the PFLP secretary-general since 2001.

In 2006, he was arrested by the Israeli security occupation forces and accused of being behind the murder of late Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001.

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PFLP re-elects detained Secretary-General Ahmed Sa’adat – Middle East Monitor

FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, AN OPEN-ENDED REVOLUTION

Fusako had initially worked at Al Hadaf magazine, the public relations office of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), alongside its editor-in-chief Ghassan Kanafani. Her role there strengthened Japanese support for the Palestinian cause by keeping Japanese leftist activists informed of what was happening on the ground in the Palestinian struggle and the Middle East. She also provided logistical support to Japanese volunteers who arrived, connecting them to related Palestinian partners.

Some Japanese medics went to Lebanon to open clinics in refugee camps, or to train people in acupuncture; artists contributed artwork or co-produced plays, while writers wrote about or translated the writings of prominent Palestinians such as Kanafani.

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FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, AN OPEN-ENDED REVOLUTION

FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, IN HER OWN WORDS

Fusako Shigenobu is the former leader of the Japanese Red Army, a communist guerrilla organization which carried out attacks against the embassies of various Western states, the US military, and multinational corporations from the 1970’s until the late 1980s...

During the early 1970s, she and several comrades traveled to Lebanon to take up armed struggle in solidarity with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), eventually leading to the creation of the Japanese Red Army. In 1972, three Japanese volunteers for the PFLP executed an attack on Israel’s Lod Airport (later known as the Lydda Struggle) in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli scientist who was responsible for developing biochemical weapons for use against the Palestinian people. Although Fusako was not present at the attack, she was forced to go into hiding after the JRA was designated a “terrorist” organization and PFLP and JRA members became targeted for assassination by Israeli death squads.

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Fusako Shignenobu, in her own words

TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED BY IOF GUNFIRE IN BETHLEHEM AND JENIN

The slain young man was identified as 28-year-old Ayman [Mahmoud Muhaisen] al-Abwini, an ex-detainee affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Local sources said that young men clashed with Israeli soldiers, who stormed the camp in large numbers, and showered them with stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails, adding that homemade explosive devices were detonated by youths during the events.

They also said that the IOF intensively fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at the young men, injuring several of them.

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