Just as Hamas' senior leadership is outside of the Palestinian territories, so are the senior members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but the group does have branches in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with a terrorist wing in the Gaza Strip. This group carried out seven terrorist attacks between 2010 and 2020 and is currently fighting against Israel in Gaza.
A number of other Palestinian factions began to report on new operations, including Islamic Jihad, the Mujahideen Movement, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which also released a statement saying that it "holds the American administration fully responsible for the renewal of aggression."
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine's (DFLP) National Resistance Brigades fired several rockets toward Israeli occupation forces who launched an incursion toward the Rafah border crossing.
A senior member of the DFLP was killed just this week in Gaza.
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in the Sabra neighbourhood and another in Shujaiya, as tanks reenter the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Among those killed in Sabra was Talal Abu Zarifa, a senior member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Wafa news agency reports
Defunct?
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine carried out 15 attacks between 2010 and 2020 and is currently involved in the fighting in Gaza. It also participated in the October 7th terrorist attack and was once known to be holding some of the hostages including the Bibas family.
PFLP Statements Taking Credit for Atrocities
On October 7, 2023, the PFLP posted several pictures on its official telegram channel, Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. They show PFLP terrorists attacking near Gaza. It also issued the following statement, “Cells of the martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades stormed several [military] points in the Gaza envelope and have inflicted verified losses in the Zionist ranks. The cells have returned safely to their bases, and other cells are operating in the field now to inflict more losses in the ranks of the occupation army troops and the herds of their settlers.”
On October 7, 2023, PFLP’s “military wing”, Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, issued a statement: “‘The Al-Aqsa flood’ campaign is a campaign of the Palestinian people in all its resistance forces. In light of the heroic sights made possible by the heroes of the resistance inside the occupied lands…we in the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades emphasize the following:…We announce a state of maximum mobilization within the ranks of our fighters, and we work on the field on the ground (sic) in several axes side by side the comrades of blood and arms. We stand with our brothers in the [Izz ad-Din] Al-Qassam Brigades and with all the resistance forces, and fight alongside them this campaign which will be noted in history. We call upon all resistance forces inside and outside of Palestine to take their positions in the trenches of confrontation which stretch now throughout all the area. Glory to the martyrs and victory to the resistance…”
On October 8, 2023, the PFLP posted a video, “scenes from the storming of the martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades’ fighters into military installations of the enemy, east of Khan Younis [on the border with Israel].”
On October 9, 2023, the PFLP posted a picture of several PFLP terrorists and the following statement, “Since the beginning of the #Al-Aqsa_flood campaign the comrades in the cyber force have engaged in launching electronic attacks, targeting the infrastructure inside the entity [i.e. Israel], including the control systems of electricity, water, road, and UAV development and manufacturing companies. Our fighters and comrades are behind the enemy everywhere.”
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is a separate terrorist organization and is not the military wing of either the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It carried out 27 attacks between 2010 and 2020 and like the PFLP participated in the October 7th terrorist attack and is currently fighting in Gaza .
More like 40%.
According to the Global Terrorism database, between 1970 and 2020, The DFLP, PFLP, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades carried out 350 terrorist attacks which resulted in more than 1,800 casualties. During this same period, Hamas carried out 505 terrorist attacks which resulted in nearly 3,000 casualties. Prior to the October 7th attack, 2 of the top 5 deadliest terrorist attacks against Israel were carried out by the PFLP and the DFLP.
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The DFLP, PFLP, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are secular groups and include both Christians and Muslims.