Nayef Hawatmeh

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Nayef Hawatmeh
Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (1968-1969)
ResidenceSyria
OccupationPolitical activist
Religionpracticing Greek Catholic
Black September
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Nayef Hawatmeh

Arabic: نايف حواتمة, romanized: Nāyef Ḥawātmeh; Kunya: Abu an-Nuf; born 17 November 1938) is a Jordanian politician who is the head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.[1][2]

Biography

Hawatmeh hails from a Jordanian clan and is a practicing Greek Catholic.[3][4][5] He has been the General Secretary of the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) since its formation in a 1969 split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), of which he was also a founder. He was active as a leader in the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), which preceded the PFLP.

He presently resides in exile in Syria, from which the DFLP receives some support.

Hawatmeh did not support

Arab peers.[7]

In 2004, he was briefly active in a joint Palestinian-

al-Aqsa Intifada
.

In 2007, Israel indicated it would allow him to travel to the West Bank for the first time since 1967, in order to participate in a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In the end, he decided not to travel to West Bank due to what he described as "Israeli conditions for his visit."[8]

Although the DFLP’s support has waned for a period under Hawatmeh's general secretariat, there has been an increase in the credibility and support of the DFLP among Palestinians and in the eyes of other groups, particularly in Gaza. In Gaza on 21 February 2023, the 54th anniversary of the group’s founding, hundreds of supporters as well as many armed fighters marched, carried the party banner and symbols, and chanted DFLP anti-Zionist slogans.[9]

In 2023, the DFLP, under Hawatmeh's leadership, joined the

2023 Hamas attack on Israel with their paramilitary wing, the National Resistance Brigades. The DFLP acknowledged their involvement through their party news, Al Hourriah, on 8 October.[10] They later participated in the battle of Khan Yunis, which ended with an Israeli withdrawal in April 2024.[11]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Also variously romanized as Naif Hawatma and Nayif Hawatme

References

  1. ^ "Nayif Hawatmeh | Palestinian politician". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. ^ "Nayef Hawatmeh, General Secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine". www.dflp-palestine.net. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Hawatmeh, Nayef (Abul Nouf) (1938-)". Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Leader of Palestinian group injured in Syria bomb". The Seattle Times. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  5. ^ Ivanovich, David (12 September 1984). "Christian Palestinians Share Moslems' Hopes". The Press-Courier. Oxnard-Camarillo-Port Hueneme Area.
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  7. ^ "Death of a King; two old enemies meet and shake". The New York Times. 9 February 1999. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  8. ^ "הנגבי: אישור לחוואתמה רק אם הוא יובא למשפט". Haaretz. 13 July 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  9. ^ "'Resistance and Unity': DFLP Supporters Rally in Gaza (PHOTOS)". Palestine Chronicle. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  10. ^ "خلال بيان لها قبل قليل.. كتائب المقاومة الوطنية (قوات الشهيد عمر القاسم) الجناح العسكري للجبهة الديمقراطية". Alhourriah. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  11. ^ "IRAN UPDATE, FEBRUARY 19, 2024". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 8 March 2024. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine... detonated an unspecified explosive device and fired a rocket-propelled grenade targeting Israeli armor near Nasser Hospital.

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