Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( ) or PFLP-GC is a Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria . It was founded in 1968 by Ahmed Jibril after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) based on claims that it was producing impotent intellectuals , and not making any meaningful progress in terms of armed struggle to liberate Palestine . In the 1970s and 1980s it was involved in the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon and launched a number of attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians ; including the Avivim school bus massacre ( 1970 ) , the bombing of Swissair Flight 330 ( 1970 ) , the Kiryat Shmona massacre ( 1974 ) and the Night of the Gliders ( 1987 ) . Since the late 1980s it has been largely inactive , but during the Syrian Civil War it has been fighting on the side of the Syrian government
Night of the Gliders
Night of the Gliders
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command