The leader of the Damascus-based Palestinian terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—General Command said last month that the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah is preparing for war against Israel, “and so are we.”
In an interview with the Hezbollah-affiliated Mayadeen TV, Ahmad Jibril called on Iran to ramp up its support of Palestinian terrorist groups, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported last week.
“With regard to the Islamic Republic [of Iran], we do not want only to ask them for money and weapons, and then say ‘thanks.’ We want to see the Muslim people of Iran devote all their efforts in the war to the liberation [of Palestine]. We want to see the revolutionary fighters from Khorasan in the Galilee,” he said. “We want to create an axis of resistance consisting of Damascus – Baghdad is getting there, Allah willing – Tehran, Hezbollah, and the noble Palestinians who still believe in the continuation of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.”
Jibril warned that following this conquest, the fighters “shall enter Jordan, whether King Abdullah likes it or not … the war with this enemy will be an all-out war.”
“What I want to hear from [Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani] and others is what their role will be in the liberation of Palestine,” he added.
When asked whether he wants Iranian troops to march toward Israel’s borders alongside the PFLP-GC, Jibril posited that they will first have to “save Syria from the plans to divide and tear it apart,” then proceed to a “war… in the Golan, in South Lebanon, in the Galilee.”
“The Israelis know this. I’m not revealing any secrets,” he claimed. “They know all about it. Hezbollah is getting ready for it, and so are we. This war will be determined from the north – from Syria and the Golan – and then from the East Bank toward the West Bank. Allah willing, this war against the enemy will be waged from Rosh HaNikra [Israel] to Aqaba [Jordan].”
The PFLP-GC, which has been heavily backed by Iran over the years, is fighting in the Syrian Civil War on behalf of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Founded in 1968 after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the group has carried out dozens of attacks in Europe and the Middle East. In February 1970, it planted a bomb on a Swissair flight en route to Israel, killing all 47 people on board. In May 1970, the group attacked a school bus near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, massacring 12 people, eight of them children. A 1974 suicide bombing carried out by the group in Kiryat Shmona killed 18 people, half of them children.
The State Department designated the PFLP-GC and the PFLP as foreign terrorist organizations in October 1997.
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