Editing Palestinian Liberation Front (section)

==Terrorist activities==
The Palestinian Liberation Front has carried out several attacks that have included the killing of civilians. The EU and the United States, among others, have designated the PLF as a terrorist organisation.

=== Attack on Nahariya ===
During the night of 22 April 1979, four members of the PLF went ashore from Lebanon in a rubber dinghy and forcibly entered an apartment building. They took hostages there. The 17-year-old PLF fighter [[Samir Kuntar]] is said to have killed two of his hostages on the beach when Israeli security forces approached. Two policemen died, and two of the attackers were also killed. Kuntar was imprisoned in Israel. Hezbollah repeatedly called for his release. In 2004, a prisoner exchange organised by the German Federal Intelligence Service took place. In the process, 430 Palestinians and 16 members of Hezbollah were released. Samir Kuntar was taken off the list of those released at the last moment. In December 2015, he was killed in an air strike.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbjqM0vfcXYC&pg=PA166 |title=Jews, Church & Civilization |volume=7 |first=David |last=Birnbaum|date=2 January 2015 |publisher=David Birnbaum |isbn=978-0-9843619-3-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Werner Sonne |url=http://www.cicero.de/weltbuehne/samir-kuntar-Israel-der-bnd-und-das-ende-eines-blutruenstigen-hisbollah-terroristen/60279 |title=Samir Kuntar – Israel, der BND und das Ende eines blutrünstigen Terroristen |website=Cicero – Magazin für politische Kultur |date=2015-12-21 |access-date=2016-02-18}}</ref>

=== ''Achille Lauro'' hijacking ===
{{Main|Achille Lauro hijacking}}
One notorious incident was the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship [[MS Achille Lauro|MS ''Achille Lauro'']] on 7 October 1985. The hijackers' original aim was to use the ship to slip into [[Israel]]. However, crew members discovered them cleaning weapons, and the group then seized control of the ship, murdering an elderly wheelchair-dependent [[Jew]]ish New Yorker, [[Leon Klinghoffer]].<ref>Rubenberg, C.A. (2010) The Encyclopedia Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lynne Rienner, Publishers.</ref>

US fighter planes later forced down the [[Egypt]]ian aircraft in which [[Abu Abbas]] was escaping following a negotiated end of the hijacking, and forced it to land at a [[USAF]] base on [[Sigonella]], [[Sicily]]. The Italians let Abbas go, but subsequently sentenced him to five life sentences ''in absentia.'' Abbas was expelled from Tunisia and established his headquarters in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]].

The United States could have brought its own charges against Abbas, although a criminal complaint filed against him in 1986 was dropped a short time later without an indictment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/16/sprj.irq.us.abu.abbas/index.html|title= U.S. mulls legal options after Abbas capture |date= April 17, 2003|publisher=CNN.com}}</ref>

=== 1990 beach raid ===
In May 1990, the PLF launched an attack on Israel's Nizanim beach, near [[Tel Aviv]], urged on by Iraq to torpedo the moves towards a negotiated solution between the PLO and Israel. The attackers had intended to kill tourists and Israeli civilians, but this was prevented. However, the action was significant, in that the failure of [[Yasser Arafat]] to condemn this attack led to the United States backing out of the American–Palestinian dialogue that had begun in 1988. Despite Arafat's official silence on the issue, the PLF suffered heavy internal criticism within the PLO, and Abu Abbas had to step down from his seat on the executive committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/threat/terror_90/mideast.html|title=Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1990 – Middle East Overview|publisher=Federation of American Scientists}}</ref>

=== Netanya Market bombing ===
{{main|Netanya Market bombing}}
In May 2002, a man got out of a taxi in the market square of Netanya – according to eyewitness reports, he was wearing an Israeli army uniform – and detonated an explosive device filled with nails. The [[Abu Dhabi]] television station reported that the radical Palestinian Liberation Front had claimed responsibility for the attack. According to the Israeli daily newspaper ‘Ha'aretz’, the radical Islamic group [[Hamas]] has also claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing.<ref>{{cite web |language=de |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tote-in-israel-mit-der-nagelbombe-auf-den-markt-a-196876.html |title=Tote in Israel: Mit der Nagelbombe auf den Markt |website=Spiegel Online |date=2002-05-19 |access-date=2016-02-18}}</ref>

=== Explosion at the Karni border crossing ===
In January 2005, an explosive device weighing around 130 kilograms was detonated near an Israeli military base in the Gaza Strip, at the Karni crossing on the border with Israel. Grenades were then fired at the border post, and a skirmish broke out. Five people lost their lives. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack. They said the attack was a ‘continuation of the resistance’. Abu Abbas had renounced terrorism as early as 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nahost-fuenf-tote-bei-anschlag-im-gaza-streifen-a-336689.html |title=Fünf Tote bei Anschlag im Gaza-Streifen
|language=de |website=Spiegel Online |date=2005-01-14 |access-date=2016-02-18}}</ref>