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Israel said to strike base of Palestinian terror group deep inside Lebanon

2019-08-27

[IsraelTimes] Reports say bombing targeted the Hezbollah-allied PFLP ‐ General Command in the Bekaa Valley near Syria border; no comment from IDF. Arabic media claimed early Monday morning that Israeli aircraft had carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a base belonging to a Paleostinian terrorist group deep inside Leb, amid a dramatic spike in tensions. The reported strikes came just hours after Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... vowed to shoot down any Israeli aircraft violating Lebanese airspace. The reports said the strikes hit a base belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ‐ General Command (PFLP-GC), a Syria-based terrorist group that fights alongside Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. The base is located in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Leb, near the border with Syria. Videos posted on social media showed explosions accompanied by heavy anti-aircraft fire. A front man for the group told the Saudi-owned al-Hadath news channel that the "Israeli bombing in the Bekaa did not achieve its objectives," but gave no further details. There was no comment from the IDF. In past cases where Israel reportedly carried out strikes in the Bekaa Valley, it appeared to be to stop the transfer of advanced arms from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to Hezbollah, via Syria. The PFLP-GC ‐ not to be confused with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, from which it split in 1968 ‐ was responsible for a number of vicious terror attacks in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, including one against a school bus in northern Israel, which killed nine children and three adults. The PFLP-GC largely went underground in the late 1980s, working behind the scenes with the Leb-based Hezbollah terror group, but it reemerged in 2011 with the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. The reported strike follows the bombing of an Iran-linked base in Syria on Saturday that Israel said foiled a plot to launch kamikaze drones into Israel, a drone attack on a Hezbollah office in Beirut and an attack on an Iran-linked militia in Iraq, both on Sunday. An Nahar adds: Israel carried out night raids on Monday at military positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Eastern Mountain Range opposite the Bekaa town of Qusaya It has positions in the eastern region of Bekaa, as well as in Al-Naaemeh just south of Beirut. Qusaya is only about five kilometers (three miles) from the Syrian border.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Food enters Syria's main Palestinian refugee camp

2014-01-19

[Al Ahram] A Palestinian official says food supplies have begun entering a besieged rebel-held Palestinian refugee camp in Syria's capital for the first time in months. Anwar Raja, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, said the first batch of supplies entered the Yarmouk camp on Saturday. Yarmouk is one of the areas hardest hit by food shortages in Syria. Residents there say 46 people have died since October of starvation, illnesses exacerbated by hunger or because they couldn't obtain medical aid. Raja had no immediate word on how many supplies entered the camp. He said much of the material was carried "on the shoulders" of PFLP-GC members and committees in the camp. PFLP-GC members are fighting against Syrian opposition fighters who control most of the camp.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Three Charged with Firing Rockets from South against Israel

2013-09-03

[An Nahar]Three people were charged on Monday with firing rockets from Lebanon against Israel on August 22, reported the National News Agency. State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged Lebanese national Youssef Mohammed al-Fleity and Omar Abdul Mawla al-Atrash and a fugitive with firing the rockets from southern Lebanon against Israel. The Lebanese suspects were arrested on Saturday and confessed "Owww! I confess! I killed JonBenet! Make him stop!" to transporting rockets from the Gaza region in the Bekaa to individuals in the southern region of Tyre. The rockets were since fired from al-Hawsh-Tyre region towards Israel on August 22. Four Katyusha rockets were fired in the incident and Israel's Channel 2 said one landed in the town of Nahariya. The Israeli army said its Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one of "three or four rockets fired from south of Tyre." The other rockets did not land in Israeli territory. "Whose territory did they hit?" "One hit Turkey. Two hit Bulgaria. And one hit Cyprus. The others went in the drink." The attack prompted Israeli warplanes the next day to strike a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) base in a valley in Naameh that lies 16 kilometers south of Beirut. The strike did not cause any casualties or material damage. The PFLP-GC denied it was involved in the rocket attack.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Blaze Triggers Landmine Explosions near PFLP-GC Base in al-Naameh

2013-06-12

[An Nahar] A blaze erupted on Tuesday near the military base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in al-Naameh town-Harat al-Naameh to the south of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported. "The fire detonated several landmines in the area, causing the expansion of the scope of the blaze," the NNA added. "The flames reached locations close to PFLP-GC military bases." Al-Jadeed television noted earlier that a series of explosions was heard in al-Naameh after a fire erupted near the base of the PFLP-GC. Meanwhile, LBCI television and MTV said that a fire erupted in the garbage landfill in the town.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian group says Syria OKs attacks on Israel

2013-05-07

President Bashar Assad's regime has given a Palestinian militant group the go-ahead to set up missiles to attack Israel in the wake of recent Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday. Syria has hinted at possible retribution against Israel since the Jewish state carried out the airstrikes over the weekend, although official government statements have been relatively mild. In that light, the Assad regime's decision to allow a minor Syria-based Palestinian group to prepare for attacks is largely seen as a face-saving gesture unlikely to escalate the confrontation with Israel. "Syria has given the green light to set up missile batteries to directly attack Israeli targets," Anwar Raja of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command told The Associated Press. He said authorities also told the PFLP-GC that the group could carry out attacks independently without consulting Syrian authorities. "Practically, the Syrian stand has always been supportive of the Palestinian resistance and Syria provides the Palestinian resistance with all capabilities including all kinds of weapons," Raja said.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Top PFLP-GC Palestinian operative killed in Syria by Rebels

2012-12-25

HT to Weasel Zippers. Popcorn anyone? The Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command announced that its operations commander, Madal Elian, was killed by rebels in Syria, according to the Lebanese news channel LBC. killed by the rebels The group is one of the last Palestinian factions to remain loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. (Former Ophthalmologist, now cranky despot)

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian rebels kill 10 pro-Assad Palestinian militiamen

2012-11-08

[Al Ahram] Syrian rebels killed 10 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), a faction loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , on Wednesday in festivities near a Paleostinian camp in Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... , opposition sources said. Fighting between the two sides has escalated in the last few days in 'Street 30' and Hajar al-Aswad near Yarmouk, a camp inhabited by 150,000 Paleostinians and as many Syrians. Syrian army artillery and warplanes have bombarded rebel positions in the area, the opposition sources said.

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Recriminations fly after clashes by Palestinian militiamen

2010-04-11

Recriminations flowed Friday following the armed clashes between Palestinian militiamen in the Bekaa Valley. Internal Security Forces (ISF) confirmed the arrest of four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), following gun battles at the group's Ain al-Bayda base near the town of Kfar Zabad on Thursday. One person was injured in the incident, which was reportedly the result of an internal PFLP-GC dispute. Initial reports of a death sustained in the fighting were proved false. A statement released late Thursday by the ISF said four members of the group had been arrested following the incident. "Armed clashes broke out with men in the base after which four of the [PFLP-GC]'s militants were arrested," the statement said. The ISF named the detained men as Ali Qassem Araji, Khaled Ramzi Araji -- both Lebanese nationals -- and Palestinians Mahmoud Alyan and Rejeh Saleh. All of the men were close to Colonel Dureid Shaaban, who was recently removed from his PFLP-GC post. It is thought that Thursday's clashes were a result of Shaaban's unwillingness to relinquish his role at the Ain al-Bayda base. The daily Al-Akhbar, citing a security source in the Bekaa, said that the mutiny had begun several days earlier, before spilling outside the compound, and that Lebanese security forces were not involved in internal clashes. The rebellion at Ain Al-Bayda base started several days ago and talks between the rebelling group and the PFLP's command broke down due to financial issues, the paper reported. Debate continued to simmer over who was responsible for the clashes, even after order was restored in the vicinity. LBCI television reported Friday that calm had returned to the area. PFLP-GC media officer Anwar Raja, during an interview with New TV, blamed an ISF intelligence head for the clashes. He also "totally" refuted that "any gunfight or internal clashes among PFLP-GC's members" had occurred. "What was reported by the media is inaccurate and these media leaks are deceptive," Raja added. PFLP-GC senior officer Abu Ramez Imad Mustafa, however, appeared to confirm that fighting had been internal and instigated by Shaaban. "One member of PFLP-GC, who has personal problems with his comrades that he tried to solve in a wrong manner, came with a number of his non-PFLP-GC relatives to the Kfar Zabad base, where clashes took place," he said. "The PFLP-GC was able to arrest four members of this soldier's family and the investigation is under way," he added. The ISF's statement also refuted Raja's claims. "The remarks made by Raja were false, and it would have been better if Raja had examined closely what has been happening in his organization before making his accusations," it said.

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Two Israeli spies sentenced to death in Lebanon

2010-02-20

A Lebanese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death on charges of espionage and involvement in the killing of senior members of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups. A military tribunal convicted the former member of Lebanon's security force Mahmoud Qassem Rafeh, 63, of "collaboration and espionage on behalf of the Israeli enemy." The retired police officer who was arrested in 2006 admitted last year to providing intelligence for Israeli spying agents over a 13-year period. He was also charged with involvement in a 2006 car bomb attack in the southern coastal town of Sidon which killed brothers Mahmoud and Nidal Mazjoub of the Islamic Jihad movement. The death sentence handed to Rafeh came as he awaits trial for the murder of Hezbollah officials Ali Hassan Dib in 1998 and Ali Hussein Saleh in 2003, as well as the 2002 murder of Jihad Jibril, the son of Ahmad Jibril, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. The other defendant, Palestinian Hussein Khattab, was convicted -- in absentia -- of being involved in the murders of members of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. Under the Lebanese law, the convicts have the right to appeal while any death sentence needs the endorsement of both the prime minister and the president for implementation. More than 70 people have been arrested on suspicions of links with Israeli intelligence services during a 2009 operation to track down and eradicate Tel Aviv's espionage rings in Lebanon.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza: PFLP-GC fighters report clash with Israeli army

2009-12-27

[Ma'an] The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, the Jihad Jibreel Brigades, said a group of fighters launched an RPG at Israel near Beit Lahiya on Saturday morning. A statement from the group said the attack occurred at 1am, with fighters clashing with Israeli troops attempting to enter the Strip through its northern border. They said no fighters were injured in the clash. An Israeli military spokeswoman said officials in the army were not aware of the incident.

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Gaza fighters attempt shelling of Israeli position

2009-08-28

Ma'an -- Two Palestinian militias said that they clashed with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning. The Jihad Jibril Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC), claimed that they launched mortar shells at an Israeli military installation at Nahal Oz, near Gaza City. An Israeli military spokesperson said that one mortar shell was observed landing inside Palestinian territory in roughly the same area. No casualties were reported by either side. PFLP-GC armed wing FAIL. Meanwhile the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the PFLP, reported clashing with Israeli forces near the Martyrs Cemetery, announcing it had fired a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli tank in the area. Responding to this report, the military spokesperson said that there were no Israeli forces operating on the ground in the interior of Gaza, and that the army was aware of no such clashes. *snicker* PFLP armed wing FAIL. We seem to be starting a collection.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

150 Fighters from Jibril' PFLP-GC Smuggled to Beddawi, Naameh

2009-01-26

About 150 fighters from Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command have reportedly been smuggled to the northern refugee camp of Beddawi and the coastal town of Naameh south of Beirut. The daily Al Balad on Sunday said the PFLP-GC -- which has bases in barren terrains in east Lebanon's towns of Qossaya, Hilweh, Sultan Yaqoub, and Deir el-Ghazal -- had smuggled around 150 fighters to Beddawi camp and a tunnel in Naameh. The newspaper, citing a security report, said the fighters were smuggled via the northern town of Talbira in the Akkar province. It reported "unusual" PLFP-GC activity, including setting up rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and planting anti-personnel mines and anti-vehicle mines around its bases, in addition to sending more trained fighters to back-up its forces in the region.

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