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![[Democratic Front for the Liberation of (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps}dflp.gif)
image by Jaume Ollé
According to Anders Jerichow's PLO – partisaner eller terrorister, Samlerens Forlag, Copenhagen, 1978, the Palestinian People's Liberation Front was splintered in three in 1969:
I guess the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is another (new/alternative?) name for PDFLP.
Ole Andersen, 18 October 2000
Israeli newspaper Yediot Akhronot of 19 August 2001 shows this flag hoisted during a Palestinian demonstration in Gaza. Palestinians have so many groups and subgroups that it is almost impossible to keep track of their flags. However, the inscription drove me to the calculated guess that this is the flag of the DPLO (Democratic PLO), a communist-orientated "refusal" (i.e. opposed to the Israel-Palestinian Oslo Agreements) organization, in the "old" days quite active in terrorists attacks. Today it has lost ground to other extremist organizations.
Anonymous, 25 August 2001
I cannot make out an inscription on the flag – perhaps your image is clearer – but the symbol (minus the "rainbow" on top) is that of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) – a communist organization, as the symbol indicates, which may have been part of the PLO umbrella but now is opposed to any peace talks. I am not sure if the "rainbow" indicates that it is a separate organization, or just an added design element for the flag (red, of course, requiring a white border for the star). The "rainbow" is black-white-green (metal separating colors), the remaining Pan-Arab (and Palestinian) colors, along with red, already present.
Nathan Lamm, 26 August 2001
A better-quality photograph of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, from Yahoo! News Photos.
contributor and date unknown
From the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism website:
The DFLP (a.k.a. Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) Hawatme) is a Marxist-Leninist and formerly pro-Soviet group that split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1969. (...) At the Spring 1977 Palestine National Council meeting, the DFLP gave full support to the Palestine national program, seeking the creation of a Palestinian state in any territory liberated from Israel.
Santiago Dotor, 10 April 2002
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has had several armed
wings over the years:
- Revolutionary Armed Forces (1969-1987)
- English:
Red Star Troops (1987)
- (Palestinian) National
Resistance Brigades (2000 onwards also known as Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces
or Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces.
For additional information go to (al-Hourriah/al hurriya) (English: Freedom
(magazine)) (official website):
http://www.alhourriah.org/
Esteban Rivera, 6 May 2024
![[Youth wing]](../images/p/ps}dflp-sub-dp.jpg)
![[Youth wing]](../images/p/ps}dflp-sub-dp).gif)
images located by Esteban Rivera, 6 May 2024
Sources: https://www.facebook.com/kt.wahda and https://palsawa.com
It also has a youth wing, called Student Unity Bloc - Democratic Pole, SUB-DP
Sources:
https://alhourriah.org/menu/7,
https://ar.wikipedia.org,
https://ar.wikipedia.org,
https://ar.wikipedia.org and
https://ar.wikipedia.org
Esteban Rivera, 6 May 2024
![[Democratic Front for the Liberation of (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps}dflp2.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 6 November 2023
The standard "Democratic F.L.P." flag but with the group's name printed as a
white Arabic slogan atop its logo, and its "D.F.L.P." initials below, as seen in
"Shijaiyah" a neighborhood of "Gaza City" in the northern Gaza Strip; c. Aug.
2014. There is a flag-pole sleeve at the right (hoist).
Source:
https://www.apaimages.info/image/I0000zxXqBv66fo4
William Garrison,
6 November 2023
![[Democratic Front for the Liberation of (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps}dflp3.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 9 January 2024
A white-field flag version of the "Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine" with its Arabic name atop its logo/emblem; c. 2005. A hidden
flag-pole sleeve is at the left side (hoist).
William Garrison, 9
January 2024
