[News] Israeli Airstrikes Hit Palestinian PFLP Position in Lebanon

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  Israeli Airstrikes Hit Palestinian Position in Lebanon

August 26, 2019
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Israeli air forces carried out Monday three strikes against a base of 
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the Lebanese 
town of Qusaya, near the Syrian border, according to local media.

“Three Israeli airstrikes targeted the Lebanese-Syria border east of 
Zahle... explosions were heard in several parts of the Bekaa valley,” 
An-Nahar news channel reported, while videos on social media showed 
explosions apparently happening in the PFLP headquarters. The strikes 
only caused material damage.

The airstrikes come as Israel Defense forces (IDF) hit Sunday several 
Hamas spots in Gaza. The country accused the militant group of firing 
three rockets to its territory.

While it remains unclear if the two latest raids are linked, the Qusaya 
incident comes after a border intrusion of alleged Israeli drones into 
Beirut on Sunday when an unmanned reconnaissance drone 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Two-Israeli-Drones-Crash-in-Lebanon-Hezbollah-Rejects-Aggression-20190825-0008.html> 
fell on the roof of a building that was housing Hezbollah's media center 
in the Dahiyeh suburbs of Beirut. About 45 minutes later a second drone, 
which was likely sent by Israel to search for the first one, exploded in 
the air and crashed nearby.

The Israeli military declined to comment.

Israel has lately increased its attacks aiming to “root out Iran’s 
proxies in the region." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without 
reserve announced that any country his administration would suspect of 
“allowing” its territory to be used for attacks against Israel will 
“bear the consequences,” as the Israeli PM steps up the warmongering and 
nationalistic rhetoric prior to Sept. 17 elections.

The PFLP not to be confused with the confederated multi-party Palestine 
Liberation Organization (PLO) is a secular Marxist-Leninist and 
revolutionary socialist organization founded in the late 1960s by 
Palestinian militant and politician George Habash to fight Israel, 
favoring a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and 
opposing any negotiation with the Israeli government.

The PFLP stance on the conflict contradicts Fatah’s more moderate 
stance. Unsurprisingly, the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, and 
the European Union have designated the PFLP as a terrorist organization.

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