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PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Pastor José Vega Franqui, left, holds The New Testament he was carrying in his shirt pocket that deflected a bullet during the May 30, 1972, terrorist attack at Lod Airport -- what is now Ben Gurion Airport -- in which his wife, Vasthi Zila Morales, was killed. His daughter, Dámaris Pérez, was 15 months old at the time. (Courtesy)
July 27, 2026, 5:58 am
Death of Lod Airport massacre terrorist ‘closes chapter’ in victim family’s painful story
Pastor José Vega Franqui, who survived the attack that killed 26 and wounded 80 in 1972, says he found forgiveness for Japanese Red Army terrorist Kozo Okamoto, part of a 3-man squad
By Diana Bletter
Kozo Okamoto, a member of the Japanese Red Army who carried out the May 30, 1972 attack on Lod Airport gives the victory sign to supporters as he arrives at a Palestinian cemetery to mark 50 years since the attack, in Beirut, Lebanon, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
July 23, 2026, 9:58 pm
Japanese Red Army terrorist behind deadly 1972 attack on Israeli airport dies at 78
Kozo Okamoto was sentenced to life in prison for attack that killed 26 people, but was freed 13 years later in a prisoner deal and moved to Lebanon, remaining there until his death
By AFP and ToI Staff
Michel Cojot as a young man visiting New York. (From 'To Kill A Nazi,' courtesy of the Cojot family)
June 20, 2026, 9:16 am
Entebbe raid’s unsung hero gets limelight in new documentary 50 years later
Filmmaker Boaz Dvir makes case that rescue operation would not have been possible without key role played by French-Jewish hostage — and would-be assassin of a Nazi — Michel Cojot
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri talks to reporters at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris after being deported from Israel over his ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror organization on December 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
May 26, 2026, 10:34 pm
Israel says French-Palestinian lawyer operated East Jerusalem terror network from overseas
France-based Salah Hamouri, whose Jerusalem residency was revoked over PFLP ties, allegedly recruited five East Jerusalemites to ‘promote militant terror activity,’ say Shin Bet, police
By Charlie Summers
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2026. (Ramil Sitdikov / POOL / AFP)
January 28, 2026, 6:42 am
Abbas signs decree seen aimed at barring Hamas from participating in local elections
Amendment to election law requires all candidates to sign pledge accepting PLO ‘national program,’ which includes recognizing Israel, two-state solution and renouncing terror
By Jacob Magid
This aerial picture shows people and traffic moving along Al-Rashid road next to destroyed buildings in Gaza City on October 23, 2025 (AFP)
October 24, 2025, 5:36 pm
Hamas, Fatah hold talks in Cairo on next steps for Gaza truce
Source says sides to ‘work on organizing the Palestinian internal front’; Hamas says ‘factions’ agreed independent Palestinian technocrats will administer post-war Gaza
By Jacob Magid, AFP and ToI Staff
Tal Haimi (right) with his wife Ela, was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak. His family was told on December 13, 2023, that he was killed during the October 7 attack. His body was returned to Israel on October 20, 2025. (Courtesy)
October 21, 2025, 1:38 am
Hamas hands over body of hostage Tal Haimi, slain defending his kibbutz on Oct. 7
Father of four was member of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak’s rapid response team; his youngest son was born 7 months after his death; 15 hostages’ bodies still held in Gaza
By Emanuel Fabian
Armed and masked men attend the funeral of two operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), reportedly killed in southern Lebanon in fighting with Israel, in the Ain el Helweh refugee camp on November 1, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
August 8, 2025, 2:27 pm
IDF says strike on Lebanon-Syria border killed senior commander in PFLP terror group
Mohammed Wishah and his bodyguard killed in Thursday strike; separately, Friday drone attack in south kills Hezbollah intelligence commander
By Emanuel Fabian, AP and Nurit Yohanan
This photograph taken during a visit of French leftist party La France Insoumise (LFI)'s MP Andree Taurinya shows Georges Ibrahim Abdallah in his prison cell in Lannemezan, southwestern France, on July 17, 2025, after an appeals court ordered his release. (Valentine Chapuis / AFP)
July 25, 2025, 9:58 am
Lebanese terrorist convicted of killing Israeli diplomat freed by France after 40 years
Georges Abdallah, 74, who was sentenced to life in 1987 for involvement in the murders of Yacov Barsimantov and US attache Charles Robert Ray, will head straight to native Lebanon
By AFP and ToI Staff
This photograph taken during a visit of French leftist party La France Insoumise (LFI)'s MP Andree Taurinya shows Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah sitting in his prison cell in Lannemezan, southwestern France, on July 17, 2025, after an appeals court ordered his release. (Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP)
July 24, 2025, 11:52 pm
Lebanese terrorist convicted of killing Israeli diplomat to be freed Friday in France
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced to life in 1987 for his role in the murders of Yacov Barsimantov and US military attaché, declares he’s still a ‘militant with a struggle’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Armed and masked men attend the funeral of two operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), reportedly killed in southern Lebanon in fighting with Israel, in the Ain el Helweh refugee camp on November 1, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
June 11, 2025, 12:01 am
US issues sanctions against charities allegedly supporting Hamas, PFLP
Ramallah-based Addameer, five other NGOs based in Gaza and Europe sanctioned for diverting donations meant for humanitarian aid to terror groups including Hamas’s military wing
By AP and ToI Staff
This photo provided by Helyeh Doutaghi shows Helyeh Doutaghi, a Yale Law School scholar. (Helyeh Doutaghi via AP)
April 4, 2025, 9:37 am
Yale sacks legal scholar amid probe into ties to Palestinian terror fundraiser
Iranian national Helyeh Doutaghi believes she was fired due to criticism of Israel and war in Gaza, says university has not given evidence of link to Samidoun
By AP and ToI Staff
A protester, with a sign that employs the inverted red triangle used in Hamas propaganda to indicate a target, stops to pet a dog as demonstrators rally outside the White House, after Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza amid its war against Hamas, on March 18, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
March 19, 2025, 6:06 pm
Anti-Israel protests held at White House and across US after resumption of Gaza strikes
Demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, LA, Dallas and more, after Israel resumes attacks on terror targets
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
French policemen escort Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (C), a Lebanese terrorist sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two diplomats, one American and the other Israeli, as Abdallah leaves Pau's Courthouse, southwestern France, on February 18, 2010. (Jean-Louis Duzert / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 8:19 pm
French court postpones decision on freeing Lebanese terrorist who killed diplomats
Court says Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed in 1982 for murdering US and Israeli diplomats, hasn’t shown proof he’s compensated his victims’ families, amid repeated refusals to pay
By AFP
Palestinian youths raise national flags along with Hamas (green) and Hezbollah (yellow) banners as they sit atop a Red Cross bus carrying dozens of security prisoners set free by Israel in the early hours of January 20, 2025, in the West Bank town of Beitunia, on the outskirts of Ramallah. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
January 20, 2025, 6:24 am
Israel frees 90 Palestinian security prisoners, who are welcomed with Hamas flags
After 3 civilian hostages released from Gaza, Israel releases inmates, mostly female, to West Bank or East Jerusalem – first of up to 1,904 Palestinians to go free in phase one of deal
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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