🇵🇸 Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation

Leila came to public attention for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous #DawsonField hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of #BlackSeptember in #Jordan. The first woman to hijack an airplane,she was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members

On August 29, 1969, Leila was part of a team that hijacked #TWAFlight840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv, diverting the Boeing 707 to Damascus

No one was injured, but after the passengers disembarked, the hijackers blew up the nose section of the aircraft. After this hijacking, and a photograph of her holding an AK-47 rifle and wearing a #kaffiyeh

she underwent six plastic surgery operations on her nose and chin to conceal her identity and allow her to take part in a future hijacking, and because she did not want to wear the face of an #icon.
Biography – Palquest

#LeilaKhaled #PFLP #Fedaiyat #Palestine

🇵🇸 Edward Heath was pushed by the US into exchanging the iconic Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled for dozens of western hostages after the world's most spectacular multiple aircraft hijacking in September 1970.

Leila Khaled was at the centre of a crisis sparked by the seizure of five civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The PFLP blew up three of the aircraft for the television cameras at a disused RAF airstrip in the Jordanian desert, and 56 US and European passengers were used to bargain for the release of seven Palestinian prisoners in Britain, Germany and Switzerland.

One was Leila Khaled, who had been handed over to the British authorities at Heathrow after an attempt to commandeer an El Al flight was foiled and her fellow hijacker, Patrick Arguello, a Nicaraguan, was shot dead by Israeli guards.

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#Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #PFLP #DawsonField #Jordan #Hostages #PrisonerExchange #UK #US #Palestine #Resistance

🇵🇸 Thread Recap

Documentary The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : 6 Days That Changed The Middle East #TheWarInJune

The Battle of Karameh - 1968 - Articles, video, posters | 1 | 2 | 3
#AlKarameh

Black September 1970 - Articles, videos, Documentaries - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | #PLO #PFLP #Jordan #BlackSeptember

Black September 1970
Palestine Poster Project Archive -
| 1 | 2 | 3 | - #Poster #BlackSeptember #Archive

Leila Khaled Hijacker, Freedom fighter icon, Interviews , Documentary, Biography and Autobiography | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |- #LeilaKhaled #PFLP
#Fedaiyat

Black September Organisation #BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO | 1 | 2 | 3 |

#Palestine #History #Fedayeen #Recap - 01

23/01/2024

🇵🇸 The Red Army PFLP Declaration Of World War (1971) Documentary | Japan - by Koji Wakamatsu, Masao Adachi

This rarely seen piece of media documents the early days of the PFLP movement through newsreel style shots, showing what everyday activities were like for a PFLP guerrilla, so as to make calls for a worldwide Maoist revolution. It features exclusive interviews with #LeilaKhaled, #GhassanKanafani, and #AbuAliMustafa.
Subtitles via YouTube captions.

In 1974 Adachi left Japan and committed himself to the Palestinian Revolution and linked up with the Japan Red Army. His activities thereafter were not revealed until he was arrested and imprisoned in 1997 in #Lebanon. In 2001 Adachi was extradited to Japan, and after two years of imprisonment, he was released and subsequently published Cinema/Revolution [Eiga/Kakumei], an auto-biographical account of his life. ''

#Palestine #History #Resistance #FPLP #Fedaiyat
#Fedayeen #Documentary

🇵🇸 Lebanon | Middle East | Road to war | This week | 1969 Documentary featuring Leila Khaled

Rare footage : skirmishs on the Syrian Lebanese border between groups of fedayeen and Lebanese army, the journalist actualy cross's the zone and visits a Fatah outpost.
Folowed by an interview of Leila Khaled in #Beirut and a Lebanese military faction that was supportive of the Palestinian cause.

Additional video : AP footage of PLO military training in October 1969

1969 Context : Cairo Agreement interactive encyclopedia of the palestine question – Palquest | Cairo agreement between the lebanese authorities and the palestinian guerrilla organizations

#Lebanon #Fatah #FPLP #PLO #LeilaKhaled #Fedaiyat #Resistance #CairoAgreement
#Fedayeen #History #Documentary
Footage released on 13/11/1969

🇵🇸 Tell Your Tale, Little Bird (2007) | Palestine Film Institute - Documentary, 1h 30m

Seven militant women (#fedaiyat) of the revolutionary generation tell the story of the Palestinian resistance through accounts of their own lives.

Cut from 35 hours of interviews with leaders of the armed struggle, the film presents an image of confident, unapologetic and proud feminine identity.Together, the memories of these women narrate the dream of a generation, yet unrealized.

Tell Your Tale, Little Bird is a testament to the power of remembrance, positioning memory as an essential element of feminist struggle. The film reminds us that this oral tradition may carry recollection of past resistance, but it is in the very practice of retelling women’s stories that the political act has persisted.

Directed by: Arab Loutfi

Featuring : #LeilaKhaled, #ThereseHalasa, #AishaOdeh, #RashidaObeida, #RasmeaOdeh, #WidadQamari, #AminaDahbour

#Palestine #Resistance #History #FPLP #ArabLoufti #Documentary