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== Terrorist attacks ==
== Terrorist attacks ==
His first known attack, is hijacking of El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Lod airport in Israel on 23 July 1968
<ref>[Arab nationalist planned hijackings - Los Angeles Times] By Kim Murphy, Jan. 27, 2008. ''He studied medicine at the American University of Beirut, founding a series of radical student organizations that called for unifying the Arabs’ military might to annihilate Israel.
After Israeli forces crushed an Arab assault and moved into the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Syria’s Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East War, Habash formed the PFLP to continue operations against Israelis. It became the second-largest faction within the PLO, after Arafat’s Fatah organization.
In one of its first operations, an Israeli El Al airliner was hijacked to Algiers in July 1968, forcing the Israelis to free 16 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of the plane and its passengers.''</ref>.
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<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.
-On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.