Editing Palestinian Liberation Front (section)

{{Short description|Palestinian political faction}}
{{Distinguish|Palestine Liberation Organization}}
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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Palestinian Liberation Front
| native_name      = جبهة التحرير الفلسطينية
| native_name_lang = [[Arabic]]
| logo             = Plf.png
| logo_size        = 150px
| colorcode        = {{party color|Palestinian Liberation Front}}
| leader           = Wasel Abu Yousef
| foundation       = {{start date|1959}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ps%7Dplf.html|title=Palestinian Liberation Front (Palestine)|website=www.crwflags.com}}</ref>
| headquarters     = [[Ramallah]], [[Palestine]]
| ideology         = [[Ba'athism]]<ref name="tg">{{cite web |url=https://en.tgchannels.org/channel/wethefurynews?size=30&lang=all&first=113910&start=113910 |title=Not only Fatah and Hamas: A guide to Palestinian political parties |date=6 August 2024 |website=tgchannels.org}}</ref><br>[[Secularism]]<ref name="sanction"/><br>[[Arab socialism]]<ref name="tg"/><br>[[Palestinian nationalism]]<ref name="sanction">{{cite web |url=https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/NK-9HeRTsMfmmgRGWkabFXdmQ/ |title=PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT - ABU ABBAS FACTION |website=opensanctions.org|date=3 December 2024 }}</ref>
| national         = [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]]
| position         = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1134569 |title=From Arafat to Hamas: Plumbing the plurality of Palestinian politics |date=28 October 2023 |website=[[Daijiworld]] |location=[[New Delhi]]}}</ref> to [[Far-left politics|far-left]]<ref name="bl">{{cite web |url=http://broadleft.org/ps.htm |title= Leftist Parties of the World |website=broadleft.org| year=2004| access-date=2017-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018010107/http://www.broadleft.org/ps.htm |archive-date=2017-10-18}}</ref>
| website          = 
| footnotes        = 
| country          = Palestine
}}

The '''Palestinian Liberation Front''' ({{langx|ar|جبهة التحرير الفلسطينية}}, '''PLF'''), also known as the '''Palestine Liberation Front - Abu Abbas Faction''' or '''Palestine Liberation Front''',<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-10-08/html/97-27030.htm |title=Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations; Notice |journal=Federal Register |volume=62 |issue=195 |date=October 8, 1997}}</ref> is a minor left-wing [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] political faction.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://jcpa.org/article/international-funding-salaries-benefits-terrorists/ |title=International Funding for Salaries and Benefits to Terrorists |first=Alan |last=Baker |date=14 July 2016 |journal=Jerusalem Issue Briefs |volume=16 |issue=10 |publisher=Institute for Contemporary Affairs}}</ref> It carried out the [[Achille Lauro hijacking]] in 1985. Since 1997, the PLF has been a [[United States Department of State list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations|designated terrorist organization]] by the [[United States]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Foreign Terrorist Organizations|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm |publisher=the U.S. State Department |access-date=19 September 2015}}</ref> and by [[Canada]] since 2003.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx#48 | title=Currently listed entities | date=21 December 2018 }}</ref> The PLF has also been banned in [[Japan]].<ref name="Japan_ban">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2002/7/0705.html |title= Implementation of the Measures including the Freezing of Assets against Terrorists and the Like (Archived copy) |access-date=2013-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406134416/http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2002/7/0705.html |archive-date=2013-04-06 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1996, the party took part in the [[1996 Palestinian general election]], winning 0.11% of the vote.<ref name="bl"/> The party also ran in the [[2006 Palestinian legislative election]] under the name ‘Martyr Abu Abbas’, and received 0.30% of the vote.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://electionguide.org/elections/id/1433/ |title=ELECTION FOR PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |website=electionguide.org |access-date=2017-09-15}}</ref>