🇵🇸 Black September
Refers to the conflict that was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces, under the leadership of King Hussein primarily between 16 and 27 September 1970, with certain actions continuing until July 1971.
On 1 September 1970, there were several failed attempts to assassinate the king. On 7 September, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by the PFLP: SwissAir and TWA jets that were landed in Jordan's Azraq area, and a Pan Am jet that was flown to Cairo. On 9 September, a BOAC flight from Bahrain was hijacked to Zarqa. The PFLP announced that the hijackings were intended "to bring special attention to the Palestinian problem". After all hostages were removed, the planes were dramatically blown up in front of TV cameras. Directly confronting and angering the King, the rebels declared the Irbid area a "liberated region.
The civil war determined if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.
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Refers to the conflict that was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces, under the leadership of King Hussein primarily between 16 and 27 September 1970, with certain actions continuing until July 1971.
On 1 September 1970, there were several failed attempts to assassinate the king. On 7 September, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by the PFLP: SwissAir and TWA jets that were landed in Jordan's Azraq area, and a Pan Am jet that was flown to Cairo. On 9 September, a BOAC flight from Bahrain was hijacked to Zarqa. The PFLP announced that the hijackings were intended "to bring special attention to the Palestinian problem". After all hostages were removed, the planes were dramatically blown up in front of TV cameras. Directly confronting and angering the King, the rebels declared the Irbid area a "liberated region.
The civil war determined if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.
#Palestine #PalestinianResistance #PalestinianFactions #FPLP #PLO #YasserArafat #Jordan #KingHussein #Amman #BlackSeptember #BlackSeptemberWar #PlaneHijacking #Hijacking #Resistance #DawsonField
🇵🇸 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
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
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🇵🇸 Black September | Three Planes Were Hijacked By The PFLP
Footage : planes on the tarmac, FPLP Press conference.Leila Khaled prisoner exchange
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#Fedaiyat #DawsonField
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Footage : planes on the tarmac, FPLP Press conference.Leila Khaled prisoner exchange
#LeilaKhaled #Hijack #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #Jordan #BlackSeptember #PFLP
#Fedaiyat #DawsonField
#History #Documentary
🇵🇸 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.
#LeilaKhaled #Fedaiyat
#Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #PFLP #DawsonField #Jordan #Hostages #PrisonerExchange #UK #US #Palestine #Resistance
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.
#LeilaKhaled #Fedaiyat
#Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #PFLP #DawsonField #Jordan #Hostages #PrisonerExchange #UK #US #Palestine #Resistance
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Year 1970
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#LeilaKhaled #Poster #History
Year 1970
#PFLP #Hijack #PlaneHijacking #Hijacking #BlackSeptember #Fedayeen #DawsonField
#LeilaKhaled #Poster #History