Who was Ahmad Jibril?
Ahmad Jibril, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, died at a hospital in Damascus.
Ahmed Jibril was born in 1938 to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother in the village of Yazura in the Palestinian city of Jaffa.
Gabriel entered the College of War in Egypt in 1956, graduating in 1959 and then joining the Syrian army as an officer. At the same time, he began his secret activities to strengthen the resistance among Palestinians living in Syria and eventually established the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but resigned from the Syrian army in 1963 due to a dispute with then-Syrian Prime Minister Amin al-Hafez. And devoted his energy to leading the newly established front.
His son Jihad Ahmad Jibril was assassinated by the Mossad on May 20, 2002 in Beirut.
Jibril confronted the Syrian resistance and the Syrian army during the unrest.
In a part of his speech about Imam Khomeini, Jibril says: Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini was able to wake up the Islamic world and give a new life to Muslims.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas paid his condolences to Jibril’s replacement as PFLP-GC leader, Talal Naji, the official PA WAFA news agency reported.
“His Eminence, in a telephone call, also provided his condolences to Badr Jibril, the son of the deceased, praying to God Almighty, to cover him with his vast mercy, that [Jibril] dwell in his vast gardens, and grant his family and relatives patience and solace,” Abbas’s office said in a statement carried by WAFA.
Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh mourned Jibril’s passing on Twitter.
“Our deepest condolences to our comrades in the General Command and to the Palestinian people on the death of the Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril,” al-Sheikh wrote.
Jibril lived in Syria for most of the rest of his life, briefly serving as an officer in the Syrian Army in the 1950s. In 1959, he founded a small paramilitary organization known as the Palestinian Liberation Front.
