🇵🇸 The Battle of Al Karameh 1968 -
Amateur Documentary Faris Abdo 2015

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#AlKarameh #Fedayeen #PLO #Jordan #JAF #Israel #History #Documentary

🇵🇸 The Battle of Al Karameh  معركة الكرامة | 1968 | Palquest

The battle of Al Karameh took place on 21 March 1968, in and around the small Jordanian town of al-Karama , in the Jordan Valley north of the Dead Sea . The battle involved invading Israeli forces and a combination of Palestinian guerrilla fighters (fedayeen) and forces from the Jordanian army. It was the first major Israeli invasion into Arab territory since the end of the 1967 War .

Although the Israeli army succeeding in destroying the fedayeen base at al-Karama, it suffered relatively heavy losses in the process, and the news of vastly outnumbered and outgunned fedayeen standing and fighting instead of retreating led to a massive upsurge in publicity and support for the Palestinian resistance movement, and Fatah in particular, launching it into the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) the following year.

The battle thus became a key moment in the development of the Palestinian resistance movement. At the same time, it set the stage for a confrontation between Palestinian guerrilla organizations and the Jordanian state, which would come to a head in the events of September 1970.

#Palestine #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #Jordan #JAF #History #Fedayeen #AlKarameh #AlKarama

🇵🇸 Leila Khaled The Orange Tree | 2015 Documentary

The original and best documentary about the remarkable Leila Khaled,   Palestinian Freedom Fighter, Hijacker, Peace Activist.

Dir Rola Mansour, Producer Philip Lloyd

#Palestine #Liberation #Resistance #LeilaKhaled #FreedomFighter #Hijacker #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking
#BlackSeptember #PFLP #History #Fedayeen #Documentary

🇵🇸 Al Fatah - Palestina - 1970 - Italian Documentary - no subtitles

AL FATAH - PALESTINE
Director: Luigi Perelli
Production company: Ufficio Cinema PCI - Year: 1970

A film on the Al Fatah movement. The documentary shows the daily activities in the refugee camps; it illustrates the political organization of the Resistance in its most important aspects such as the unions, the people’s army, the press; it informs on the organization of services, hospitals, schools; it describe military training in the camps; it follows a military action in the occupied territories and finally it reconstructs the battle of Karameh.

The images filmed in the occupied territories and the testimony of political and military leaders – among them; Arafat himself – as well as of the people themselves show a complete picture of Al Fatah’s political and military action.

#Palestine #History #Fatah #Fedayeen #Resistance #Documentary

🇵🇸 Biladi, une révolution - 1970

Switzerland - Fr no Subtitles - Documentary | Director: Francis Reusser | 60 minutes

Jordan 1970 : Like a political tract, the film exalts the Palestinian revolution through the role of the combattants, women, workers and children. Revolutionary songs and poems punctuate the people's struggle for liberation. This film defends a cause that was very little supported at that time. 'Biladi, une révolution' is one of the very first (if not the first) films on the issue.

#Palestine #History #Resistance #Fedayeen #Jordan #Documentary

🇵🇸 (27 Mar 1973) Interview guerilla leader Abu Daoud on Black September Organisation

Mohammad Daoud Oudeh (Arabic: ⁧محمد داود عودة⁩), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Daoud or Abu Dawud (Arabic: ⁧أبو داود⁩) (1937 – 3 July 2010) was a Palestinian #militant, teacher and lawyer known as the planner, architect and mastermind of the #MunichOlympics hostage operation. He served in a number of commanding functions in Fatah's armed units in #Lebanon and #Jordan.

#Palestine #Resistance #AbuDaoud #Fatah #BSO #BlackSeptemberOrganisation
#Documentary #Fedayeen #History

🇵🇸 A Victory for the Palestinian People ( 1973 Documentary ) - Color Version | PPPA –

Curator's note: this may be the first-ever US published Palestine solidarity poster

This image was used to advertise a 52-minute black and white film entitled “Revolution Until Victory” that came out in 1973 from Single Spark Films. 

Single Spark Films emerged out of the film production company called California Newsreel, after the group split up. Single Spark Films was associated with a Marxist group in the San Francisco Bay area called the Bay Area Revolutionary Union. 

The photo might, MIGHT have been taken by noted photographer and Palestine activist Jeff Blankfort in Jordan's Schneller refugee Camp when he was a photographer working with Liberation News Service in #Jordan in 1970-71.

#Palestine #Fedayeen #History #Poster #US #Documentary

🇵🇸 Ghassan Kanafani: Voice of Palestine (1936-1972) - Palestine Chronicle –

Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, ‘a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.’ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted ‘the leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.

#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Resistance #Culture #Fedayeen #Author #Artist #Writer #Editor #Activist #Journalist #Intellectual #Lebanon #Beirut #Mossad

🇵🇸 PFLP Ghassan Kanafani, Richard Carleton interview | 1970

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, #Beirut 1970. The conflict was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (#PLO )under the leadership of #YasserArafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces under the leadership of #KingHussein. At its core the civil war sought to determine if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon. In 1972, #GhassanKanafani and his niece were killed in a car bomb set by the #Mossad outside his home, he was 36.

#Palestine #PFLP #Fedayeen #Jordan #Lebanon #BlackSeptember #History #Documentary

🇵🇸 The Cairo Agreement, Explained

In the late ’60s, especially after Israel won the Arab-Israeli (6-Day) War [#TheWarInJune] in 1967, a strong presence of Palestinian guerillas began to grow in #Lebanon, and the frequency of their operations against Israel from within Lebanese territories increased as well.

On the evening of December 28th, 1968, the Israeli military commenced “#OperationGift,” a #commando operation on #Beirut Airport that resulted in the destruction of 13 passenger planes and a total loss of $43.8 million.

The Israeli repeated retaliations partly aimed to provoke a response in the Lebanese against the militant Palestinian presence in their country.

However, at the time, a significant portion of the Lebanese population was in support of that presence, for reasons that include the prevailing sentiment in the region against the Israeli occupation of #Palestine and the sectarian rift that had begun to manifest between #Muslims and #Christians.

#Fedayeen #Fatah #PLO #History #CairoAgreement