Ahmad Jibril; A Thug Criminal Who Shed the Blood of Syrians and Palestinians for the Sake of Assad

The founder of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command” (PFLP-GC), Ahmad Jibril, died on July 7, 2021, in the Syrian capital, Damascus, at the age of 83, after his health deteriorated.

But his death did not pass in the chapters of the Syrian scene, especially that he was one of the strongest historically allied with the Regime of Hafez al-Assad and after him with his son Bashar, the Syrian revolution that erupted in March 2011 revealed the true compass of this man.

That was when Jibril sided with the head of the Regime, Bashar al-Assad, not only against the Syrian people, rather against his Palestinians people residing in Syria, those who came with them after the “Nakba of 1948”.

 

Palestinian-Syrian

Ahmad Jibril was born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1938, in the Palestinian village of Yazour, east of Jaffa, before Syria embraced him and his displaced family during the Nakba of the declaration of the “Israeli occupation” state in 1948, he and his family were later granted Syrian citizenship.

He studied secondary school in Damascus, and obtained its certificate in 1956, after graduating from the Military College in Cairo in 1959, he contributed to the establishment of the “Palestine Liberation Front” (PLF) in the same year, then he worked as a lieutenant and then an officer in the engineering corps in the Syrian army until his release in 1963.

Jibril’s Front united with the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) in 1965, but soon the union broke up, and he established the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” (PFLP) in 1967.

The new experience did not last long to separate from the front as well, and he established the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command” (PFLP-GC) in 1968, as a left-wing nationalist movement, and became its general secretary for 53 years, and he took Damascus as the headquarters of his movement until his death on July 7, 2021.

 

 

Turning Point

The outbreak of the Syrian revolution formed a turning point in the march of Ahmad Jibril, which is described as a “struggle”, to break the sword of his faith and put his hand in the hand of Bashar al-Assad, to kill and displace the Syrian people.

The (PFLP-GC) led by Jibril quickly transformed to the first Palestinian militia to support Assad's forces in storming Syrian cities that opposed the Syrian regime.

The road to the liberation of Jerusalem, which Jibril was singing about, suddenly passes through Syrian cities and towns, using his hidden missiles to hit the heads of civilians, and throwing behind him slogans to restore Jerusalem to satisfy the Assad Regime.

Palestinian writer and researcher Muhammad Khair Musa, detailed for “Al-Estiklal”, the roles that Jibril played during the era of the Assad Regime (father and son), until his death.

He said: “He owns a militia in Syria, and he was part of the intelligence situation of Hafez al-Assad's Regime, a striking arm of the Syrian army in its siege of Tal Al-Za’atar refugee camp in Lebanon, and an ally in the siege of the Palestinians”.

The mass massacre that took place in the “Tal Al-Za’atar” refugee camp, which was established in 1949, it represents one of the worst pages of the Lebanese Civil War, that erupted in 1975 and lasted about 15 years.

As a result of the siege and storming of the camp in 1976, by Hafez al-Assad's forces and Maronite militias, according to the Palestinian Information Center, 4,280 people were killed, the majority of whom were civilians, women, children, and the elderly, as well as thousands of wounded and horrific stories.

The Palestinian researcher stated, “Jibril was also entrusted with fighting the Palestinians who refused to submit to the Regime of Bashar al-Assad, and they supported their Syrian brothers in facing this Regime”.

Thug Criminal

Syrians see Jibril, as a “thug” who shed the blood of Syrians in the service of Bashar al-Assad, and that it was nothing but an intelligence tool in the hands of Hafez al-Assad.

Syrian accounts on social media described Jibril as "Sharon of the camps”, another indicated that he had turned into a “master of the hire-gun”.

Syrians interacted with the comment of the former observer of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Dr. Essam Al-Attar, on Facebook about Jibril’s death, he described him as a “thug criminal”.

Media reports confirm that Hafez al-Assad's reward for Ahmad Jibril for his participation in the war of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon in 1985; was camps for them within Syrian territory.

As well as the formation of regular military units, in which Palestinian youths perform compulsory service in cooperation with Major General “Tariq al-Khadra”, who is a commander of the “Palestine Liberation Army” (PLA) in Syria, and he also participated in the fighting and siege of those Palestinian camps in the eighties of the twentieth century and during the Syrian revolution.

 

High Level Alliance

According to the Syrian writer and political analyst, Ahmad Al-Hawas: “Ahmad Jibril is one of the political converts to Iran, he has a distinguished relationship with it, especially since he stayed there for a while and then returned to Damascus”.

 

The “Popular Front” militia had revealed its teeth during the participation of Assad's forces, besieging the largest Palestinian camps in the diaspora, it is the Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus, which was sheltering a quarter of a million Palestinian refugees.

Media reports confirm that starvation only claimed the lives of more than 200 people, mostly children and aged in the camp between the second half of 2013 and the first half of 2014.

The camp also witnessed the displacement of thousands of Palestinian families, dozens of Palestinians were arrested by Assad's intelligence services to begin a “pivotal event” was the bombing of the camp by Assad's air force in December 2012, this is under the pretext of confronting the opposition factions.

Al-Hawas said: “Jibril's work does not fall under the Palestinian national work or the resistance, rather it turned out that he was working for the benefit of Regimes whose mission is to protect the Zionists, not the other way around”.

He added: “All this blood that was shed in Syria will not change Jibril, who is remained on a high-level alliance with the Assad Regime, as well as in his relationship with Iran, as well as the relationship of Ahmad Jibril's sister (Amira) with Al-Qubaysiat, those are a religious organization that operates without deviating from the authority of the ruler in Syria and under his auspices and sponsorship”.