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![[Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps}ppsf.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 09 May 2007See also:
A photo of a Lebanese UFE in a Yahoo News anti-war slideshow shows a white flag with a complex logo in the center. This logo is composed of a red map that looks like Palestine, Palestinian flags streched out in arc above the map, green arabic writing streched in arc below the map, more writing counterchanged across the center (inteligible?) in black and white and two 5-pointed multicoloured stars on the side.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Mar 2003I saw yesterday some TV coverage of another demonstration in Lebanon that included large numbers of these flags.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Mar 2003
This photo may have been taken in Lebanon, but the flag is clearly Palestinian, being as it has a big map of Mandate Palestine on it. A bit of research reveals the logo to be that of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front.
From Wikipedia:
The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF, occasionally abbr. PSF), (Arabic, Jabhat al-Nidal al-Sha'biyya al-Filastini), a militant Palestinian organization. The group is led by Dr. Samir Ghawshah. Despite holding a seat in the executive council seat in the PLO, PPSF is generally considered to have a very limited influence over Palestinian politics.Eugene Ipavec, 09 May 2007
![[PPSF flag]](../images/p/ps}ppsf.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 10 January 2024
A white field flag of "The Popular Palestinian Struggle Front" (PPSF), with its logo, and there is a hidden flag-pole sleeve at the left side (hoist); c. 1999. In the middle of the logo, the larger black Arabic word "جبهة" means "Front". This word complements the circular text below which reads "النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني" , which translates into "The Popular Palestinian Struggle". So, the whole "جبهة النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني" reads: "The Popular Palestinian Struggle Front". This organization was established shortly after the "Six-Day War" [June 1967] by "Bahjat Abu Gharbiya" in the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and in the Gaza Strip. It was headed by "Samir Gusha" and numbered approximately 400 men. The majority of its operations were in Lebanon with 75 political and material supporters in Iraq and Libya. In 1991 it merged with Fatah, but shortly thereafter had a falling out and left. Thereafter its members seemed to have wandered off to other Palestinian militias. As of January 2024, the PPSF is not even listed in Wikipedia. Limited information at: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA347564.pdf (p. 28), https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/4752/8024420.PDF?sequence=1 (p. 64-65), and https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA335008.pdf (p. 74).
William Garrison, 10 January 2024
![[PPSF flag]](../images/p/ps}ppsf2.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 17 January 2024A "34th Founding
Anniversary" variation of the flag of the "Popular Palestinian Struggle Front"
as seen in Gaza; c. March 2002. The large black Arabic word in the middle of the
PPSF logo is: "جبهة" which means "Front". This word complements the circular
text below which reads "النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني" , which translates into "The
Popular Palestinian Struggle". So, the whole "جبهة النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني"
reads: "The Popular Palestinian Struggle Front". At the bottom there is a black
Arabic slogan that reads: "The 34th anniversary (of the founding) of the Popular
Palestinian Struggle Front". This organization was established 34 years earlier
and shortly after the "Six-Day War" [June 1967] in the West Bank [Judea and
Samaria] and in the Gaza Strip. The hoist is on the left side of this flag.