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== Terrorist attacks ==
== Terrorist attacks ==
On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv<ref>[https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/pflp-dflp-pflp-gc-palestinian-leftists PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestinian leftists. Last updated October 31, 2005] What terrorist activities has the PFLP undertaken? In its early years, the PFLP conducted hundreds of terrorist attacks. It is best known for pioneering the technique of international airplane hijackings in the late 1960s and 1970s—with consequences that rattled the Middle East:
-On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.
-In September 1970, the PFLP hijacked three passenger planes and took them to airfields in Jordan, where the PLO was then based; after the planes were emptied, the hijackers blew them up. In response, King Hussein of Jordan decided that Palestinian radicals had gone too far and drove the PLO out of his kingdom.
-In 1972, PFLP and Japanese Red Army gunmen murdered two dozen passengers at Israel’s international airport in Lod.
-In 1976, breaking a PLO agreement to end terrorism outside Israeli-held territory, PFLP members joined with West German radical leftists from the Baader-Meinhof Gang to hijack an Air France flight bound for Tel Aviv and landed the plane in Entebbe, Uganda. In a now-famous raid, Israeli commandos stormed the plane on the Entebbe tarmac and freed the hostages.
-During the Platestinian intifada, PFLP gunmen shot dead Ze’evi, Israel’s rightist tourism minister, in a Jerusalem hotel—the first assassination of an Israeli minister. The group has also claimed responsibility for several recent car bombings and shootings in Israel and the West Bank.
-In April 2002, Israeli officials foiled a PFLP attempt to blow up a Tel Aviv skyscraper with a car bomb—which could have caused massive casualties and would have marked a dramatic escalation in Palestinian terrorism.
-The group was responsible for a suicide bombing Christmas Day 2003, in which four people were killed and more than twenty were wounded.
-The PFLP and its current leader, Ahmed Jibril, were mentioned in the 2005 United Nations report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, for allegedly assisting senior Lebanese security officials who were implicated in the 2004 car bombing that killed Hariri.</ref>.
In 1976, the PFLP along with the German terrorist ''Revolutionary Cells'' hijacked an Air France flight to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]], where they singled out the Jewish passengers in a plot to murder them.<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0313324859, p. 277</ref>
In 1976, the PFLP along with the German terrorist ''Revolutionary Cells'' hijacked an Air France flight to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]], where they singled out the Jewish passengers in a plot to murder them.<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0313324859, p. 277</ref>