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
Swissair Flight 330
Swissair Flight 330
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command