Today marks the anniversary of the eternal and revolutionary leader, comrade martyr Abu Ali Mustafa, the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for whom the PFLP's armed wing is named after.

Abu Ali, upon his return to Palestine in 1999 after 32 years in exile stated, "We have returned to resist; on the thawabet, we do not compromise," after having established the PFLP with George Habash. Shortly after, Yasser Arafat met with Bill Clinton to redefine the fundamental Palestinian principles, the thawabet, increasing security coordination with the zionist enemy and conceding Palestinian land.

The betrayal of Oslo and the continued collaboration between the PA, the zionists, and imperialist forces demanded the urgent presence of Abu Ali Mustafa to lead and represent the millions of Palestinians who rejected the PA’s normalization. The masses rejected the acceptance of USAID to buy them off, security coordination with the enemy, and land concessions. He returned to invoke the popular NO of the masses. Abu Ali once stated, "The Palestinian Authority and the occupation cooperate in striking the Palestinian armed struggle."

Abu Ali oversaw some of the PFLP's most effective operations during his leadership, despite his short tenure during the second intifada.

On this day in 2001, two missiles were fired from an IOF Apache helicopter towards his office. The above video links one of Abu Ali's most famous speeches with the poem "Launch" by Basil Bazrawi, dedicated to the PFLP.

"No one can buy us off, for the enemy is an enemy that has attacked us, attacked humanity, and attacked humankind."
"As long as the occupation exists on our land, resistance will remain a legitimate right."

We encourage you to read Samidoun Network's biography of Abu Ali Mustafa here.

Abu Ali Mustafa was succeeded as the PFLP's Secretary-General by imprisoned comrade Ahmed Sa'adat, who did not delay in getting revenge. On the day of Abu Ali's assassination, the Red Eagles Brigades assassinated Meir Lixenberg, who oversaw a number of West Bank settlements.

Ahmed Sa'adat sought to avenge his comrade who had ascended: "An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. A head for a head." Nothing less could avenge.

Sa'adat delivered these historic words in his first speech, renaming the Red Eagles Brigades in Abu Ali's honor, and redefining the PFLP's motto, vowing revenge. Days later on October 17th, PFLP commandos assassinated zionist minister Rehavam Ze'evi to avenge Abu Ali Mustafa.

Heroes Majdi Al-Rimawi, Hamdi Qaraan, and Basil Al-Asmar booked themselves into the Hyatt Regency in Al-Quds with fake passports to prepare for the day of glory. Equipped with silencers, Hamdi spotted Ze'evi, grabbing his attention with a nonchalant "hey." Ze'evi turned around, and three silent bullets pierced the minister's skull.

For this speech and the ensuing operation, Ahmed Sa'adat, the heroes of the operation, and Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades commander-in-chief Ahed Abu Ghulma were kidnapped by the Palestinian Authority in January 2002, kept in the infamous Areeha prison under the auspices of Jibril Rajoub and Tawfiq Tirawi (additional link). Guarded by American, Canadian, and British guards, the PA handed Sa'adat over to the zionist entity in March 2002. Today, Sa'adat leads the PFLP from "Ramon" prison, where he and PFLP leadership continue to face abuse at the hands of the zionists.

🚨Palestinian Prisoners Club:
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On the National Day for the Recovery of the Bodies of Martyrs, a fact sheet was released by the National Campaign for the Recovery of the Bodies of Martyrs and the Prisoners’ Institutions. This document details the ongoing crime of detaining the bodies of martyrs in numbered cemeteries, refrigerators, and the Sde Teman camp.

- National Day for the Recovery of Martyrs' Bodies, August 27.

Facts about the Detained Bodies:

- Total number of martyrs whose bodies are being held: 552.
- 256 bodies in numbered cemeteries.
- 296 bodies detained since the return of the detention policy in 2015, including:
- 9 martyrs.
- 32 martyrs from the prisoner movement.
- 55 children under the age of 18.
- 5 martyrs from the occupied territories of 1948
- 6 martyrs from Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

Since the beginning of the ongoing war against the people in Gaza, the zionist occupation has escalated the detention of bodies. Since the start of this war, 149 bodies have been detained, constituting more than half of those detained since 2015. This data excludes the martyrs detained from the Gaza Strip. The number of martyrs from Gaza held by the occupation is estimated to be in the hundreds, but there is no official statement from the occupation regarding the exact number of bodies from Gaza to date.

🚨Palestinian Prisoners Club:
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On the National Day for the Recovery of the Bodies of Martyrs, a fact sheet was released by the National Campaign for the Recovery of the Bodies of Martyrs and the Prisoners’ Institutions. This document details the ongoing crime of detaining the bodies of martyrs in numbered cemeteries, refrigerators, and the Sde Teman camp.

- National Day for the Recovery of Martyrs' Bodies, August 27.

Facts about the Detained Bodies:

- Total number of martyrs whose bodies are being held: 552.
- 256 bodies in numbered cemeteries.
- 296 bodies detained since the return of the detention policy in 2015, including:
- 9 martyrs.
- 32 martyrs from the prisoner movement.
- 55 children under the age of 18.
- 5 martyrs from the occupied territories of 1948
- 6 martyrs from Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

Since the beginning of the ongoing war against the people in Gaza, the zionist occupation has escalated the detention of bodies. Since the start of this war, 149 bodies have been detained, constituting more than half of those detained since 2015. This data excludes the martyrs detained from the Gaza Strip. The number of martyrs from Gaza held by the occupation is estimated to be in the hundreds, but there is no official statement from the occupation regarding the exact number of bodies from Gaza to date.

♦️ National Resistance Brigades (Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces):
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The Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces target the zionist enemy forces that penetrated the vicinity of Al-Qastal Towers, east of Deir Al-Balah city, in the central Gaza Strip, with mortar shells.
Al-Aqsa Flood.

🚨 The UKMTO reports that a ship 24 nautical miles west of Al-Mukha, Yemen, was approached by a drone boat accompanied by three other boats.

The IOF abducted Izz El-Din Nasasra of Beit Furik, #Nablus (as well as his brother Mohammed), just a day after he was freed from Palestinian Authority prisons, where he was detained for about 50 days. #FreeThemAll

🚨 The IOF continues its aggression on the central Gaza Strip.

In the last hour, the IOF bombed the vicinity of Zamalek tower in Deir Al-Balah, resulting in one martyr and several wounded. Artillery shelling also targeted areas east of Deir al-Balah, while a woman was wounded from drone fire and IOF warplanes bombed a vehicle.

Shelling also targeting the top floor of the Saleh Abu Giab building in the center of Maghazi camp, as well as north of Nusseirat camp.

In the southern Gaza Strip, heavy gunfire targeted areas west of Khan Younis, including the Mahatta neighborhood as zionist forces invade the area.

In the north, bombing was reported in the vicinity of the Jordanian Hospital in southern Tal al-Hawa.

🚨 Resistant youth set fire to an occupation army post, surrounded by settlers on a frequent basis, on Jabal Khallet al-Nahla, near #Bethlehem.

Today, 27 August 2024, we mark the 23rd anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian revolutionary and national leader Abu Ali Mustafa by Zionist occupation forces, using US-made and US-provided helicopter-fired missiles, in a bloody illustration of the alliance of Zionism and imperialism that is amplified today in the genocidal Zionist assault on Gaza, armed with U.S.-made and -sponsored weaponry. The General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Ali Mustafa was targeted in his office in occupied Al-Bireh, Palestine, part of the systematic mechanism of assassination that continues to characterize the attacks on the leading martyrs: Ismail Haniyeh, Fouad Shukr, Saleh al-Arouri, and so many others. He has become a symbol of resistance, Palestinian unity and confrontation of the occupation, known by his famous words when entering Palestine: “We return to resist, not to compromise.”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Abu Ali Mustafa, a popular, revolutionary leader of the Palestinian liberation movement, who remained committed to the Palestinian resistance, the Palestinian people and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, until his last moment. He continued his work even though he knew that he was targeted, because he was determined to never abandon the cause of the people, resisting and struggling in the Al-Aqsa Intifada and developing the struggle after the devastation of Oslo....

Abu Ali Mustafa was a son of the Palestinian popular classes, born in 1938 in Arraba, Jenin, Palestine. He left school in the third grade and worked as a boy in the factories of Haifa before and during the Nakba and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. At the age of 17, he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement, founded by Dr. George Habash (al-Hakim), Wadie Haddad, Abu Maher al-Yamani (himself a labour leader), Basil al-Kubaisi, Ahmad al-Khatib, Hani al-Hindi and their comrades, and played a leading role in the ANM of the 1950s and 1960s.

He returned to the occupied West Bank of Palestine in 1999 — to his place of birth, Arraba, Jenin. He expressed clearly that his return to Palestine was accompanied by a very clear commitment to resistance and liberation, including and particularly the armed resistance. In 2000, at the sixth congress of the PFLP, Abu Ali Mustafa was elected General Secretary of the Front.  His presence as a principled national leader in occupied Palestine was not a concession to the Palestinian Authority and the Oslo framework but served as a challenge to the so-called “peace process” — and this is why he was targeted for assassination. Over 50,000 Palestinians marched in his funeral in central Ramallah.

As a response to the targeted assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, the PFLP elected its general secretary Ahmad Sa’adat — today imprisoned in Zionist jails and one of the leadership figures of the imprisoned Palestinian resistance, alongside Abdullah Barghouthi, Marwan Barghouthi, Ibrahim Hamed, Abbas al-Sayyed, Hassan Salameh and over 9,500 Palestinian prisoners — and targeted the notoriously racist Zionist tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi several weeks later on 17 October. Of course, Ze’evi was widely known and notorious for his demands for the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The successful assassination of Ze'evi sent a clear message from the Palestinian resistance – that the Israeli assassination policy would not be tolerated and that an assassination of Palestinian leaders would be met with an equal response. This project remains critical today, as Hezbollah responds to the assassination of Fouad Shukr (Sayyed Mohsen), and as the entire alliance of resistance forces in the region awaits the coming response to the Zionist assaults on Yemen, the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, and the ongoing Zionist/imperialist genocide in Gaza.

Read the full statement: https://samidoun.net/2024/08/no-to-zionism-no-to-submission-23-years-on-the-martyrdom-of-abu-ali-mustafa/

Today, 27 August 2024, we mark the 23rd anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian revolutionary and national leader Abu Ali Mustafa by Zionist occupation forces, using US-made and US-provided helicopter-fired missiles, in a bloody illustration of the alliance of Zionism and imperialism that is amplified today in the genocidal Zionist assault on Gaza, armed with U.S.-made and -sponsored weaponry. The General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Ali Mustafa was targeted in his office in occupied Al-Bireh, Palestine, part of the systematic mechanism of assassination that continues to characterize the attacks on the leading martyrs: Ismail Haniyeh, Fouad Shukr, Saleh al-Arouri, and so many others. He has become a symbol of resistance, Palestinian unity and confrontation of the occupation, known by his famous words when entering Palestine: “We return to resist, not to compromise.”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Abu Ali Mustafa, a popular, revolutionary leader of the Palestinian liberation movement, who remained committed to the Palestinian resistance, the Palestinian people and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, until his last moment. He continued his work even though he knew that he was targeted, because he was determined to never abandon the cause of the people, resisting and struggling in the Al-Aqsa Intifada and developing the struggle after the devastation of Oslo....

Abu Ali Mustafa was a son of the Palestinian popular classes, born in 1938 in Arraba, Jenin, Palestine. He left school in the third grade and worked as a boy in the factories of Haifa before and during the Nakba and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. At the age of 17, he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement, founded by Dr. George Habash (al-Hakim), Wadie Haddad, Abu Maher al-Yamani (himself a labour leader), Basil al-Kubaisi, Ahmad al-Khatib, Hani al-Hindi and their comrades, and played a leading role in the ANM of the 1950s and 1960s.

He returned to the occupied West Bank of Palestine in 1999 — to his place of birth, Arraba, Jenin. He expressed clearly that his return to Palestine was accompanied by a very clear commitment to resistance and liberation, including and particularly the armed resistance. In 2000, at the sixth congress of the PFLP, Abu Ali Mustafa was elected General Secretary of the Front.  His presence as a principled national leader in occupied Palestine was not a concession to the Palestinian Authority and the Oslo framework but served as a challenge to the so-called “peace process” — and this is why he was targeted for assassination. Over 50,000 Palestinians marched in his funeral in central Ramallah.

As a response to the targeted assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, the PFLP elected its general secretary Ahmad Sa’adat — today imprisoned in Zionist jails and one of the leadership figures of the imprisoned Palestinian resistance, alongside Abdullah Barghouthi, Marwan Barghouthi, Ibrahim Hamed, Abbas al-Sayyed, Hassan Salameh and over 9,500 Palestinian prisoners — and targeted the notoriously racist Zionist tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi several weeks later on 17 October. Of course, Ze’evi was widely known and notorious for his demands for the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The successful assassination of Ze'evi sent a clear message from the Palestinian resistance – that the Israeli assassination policy would not be tolerated and that an assassination of Palestinian leaders would be met with an equal response. This project remains critical today, as Hezbollah responds to the assassination of Fouad Shukr (Sayyed Mohsen), and as the entire alliance of resistance forces in the region awaits the coming response to the Zionist assaults on Yemen, the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, and the ongoing Zionist/imperialist genocide in Gaza.

Read the full statement: https://samidoun.net/2024/08/no-to-zionism-no-to-submission-23-years-on-the-martyrdom-of-abu-ali-mustafa/

🚨🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory."

In continuation of our path in resisting the occupation, in support of our people in Gaza, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against Palestinian civilians, including children, women and the elderly, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, yesterday evening, Monday 26/8/2024, targeted a vital site in Haifa in our occupied lands using a drone.

The Islamic Resistance confirms its continuation in striking the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity.

"And victory is only from Allah. Indeed, Allah is Mighty and Wise."

Islamic Resistance in Iraq
Tuesday, 22 Safar, 1446 AH