| The hijackings led of Jordan to carry out a major offensive against militant strongholds in his kingdom resulting in the deaths of thousands of Palestinians | During the Lebanese Civil War that broke out in 1975, PFLP forces were decimated in the battle against Syria |
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| In the 1970 , Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners over the United States, Europe, the Far East and the Persian Gulf | The PFLP's pioneering of modern international terror operations brought the group, and the Palestinian issue, onto newspaper front pages worldwide, but it also provoked intense criticism from other parts of the |
This balancing act could not save the PFLP from being eclipsed by the militant Islamist factions on the one hand, and the resource-rich Fatah with its PNA patronage network on the other.
1| He continued to be an activist for the group until 2008 when he died of a heart attack in | |
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| Andrews; John Kifner 27 January 2008 | In 1951, after graduating first in his class from medical school, Habash worked in refugee camps in Jordan and ran a clinic with in Amman |
policies and fragmentation of the Arab world.
10| The , called for three days of national mourning | In the same year, he also came into conflict with long-time ally , but both remained in the PFLP |
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| Macleod, Scott 28 January 2008 | In 1958 he fled to then part of the , but was forced to return to in 1961 by the tumultuous breakup of the UAR |
After finding the position sterile, with Palestinian political dynamics playing out on the and areas of the PNA , Habash carefully sought to repair ties to Arafat, and gain a hold in post-Oslo politics without compromising PFLP principles.
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