PFLP militant and iconic symbol of armed Palestinian resistance

Leila Khaled

Leila Khaled is a prominent activist within the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who gained international fame as a female guerilla fighter. She became a iconic figure of Palestinian armed resistance following her participation in the 1969 and 1970 PFLP aircraft hijackings aimed at drawing global attention to the Palestinian cause. While denounced as a terrorist by Western governments, she was celebrated across the Arab world and global left-wing movements as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle. Following her release, Khaled remained active in the PFLP political leadership, advocating for Palestinian liberation and women's rights.

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Year	Leila Khaled
1944	Birth of Leila Khaled (Period: April 9, 1944, Location: Haifa, present-day Israel)
1947	First Arab-Israeli War (Age: 2 years old, Period: 1947–1949, Location: Palestine, Jerusalem, Lydda, Ramle, etc.)
1948	Evacuation from Haifa to Lebanon (Age: 3 years old, Period: April 1948, Location: Haifa, and Tyre, South Lebanon)
1959	Participation in Arab Nationalists' Movement (Age: 14 years old, Period: 1959, Location: Lebanon)
1963	Enrollment at American University of Beirut and Student Movement (Leila Khaled, Age: 18 years old, Period: 1963–1964, Location: Beirut, Lebanon) English Teacher in Kuwait (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1963–1969, Location: Kuwait)
1967	Third Arab-Israeli War (Age: 23 years old, Period: June 5–10, 1967, Location: Egypt, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights)
1969	Participation in PFLP External Operations Department (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1969–1972, Location: Middle East, Europe, etc.) TWA Flight 840 Hijacking Incident instead of TWA Flight 693 (Age: 25 years old, Period: August 29, 1969, Location: From Rome, Italy to Damascus, Syria)
1970	Marriage (Leila Khaled, Fayez Rashid, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1970s (Exact month and year unconfirmed), Location: Details Unknown) Attempted Hijacking of El Al Flight 219 (Age: 26 years old, Period: September 6, 1970, Location: From Amsterdam, Netherlands to London, United Kingdom) Dawson's Field Hijackings (Multiple Aircraft Hijackings, Age: 26 years old, Period: September 6–12, 1970, Location: Dawson's Field near Zarqa, Jordan)
1973	Activities in General Union of Palestinian Women (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1973–1977, Location: Lebanon)
1978	Establishment of Support Facilities at Tel al-Zaatar Refugee Camp (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1978, Location: North of Beirut, Lebanon) Studies in Moscow and Rostov (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1978–1980, Location: Moscow and Rostov, Soviet Union)
1979	Participation in Palestinian National Council (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1979 onward, Location: Damascus, Syria, etc.)
1982	First Lebanon War (Age: 38 years old, Period: June–September 1982, Location: Lebanon, especially Beirut)
1986	Appointment as First Secretary of Palestinian Women's Organization (Leila Khaled, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1986, Location: Palestine, Arab Countries, etc.)
1992	Relocation to Amman (Leila Khaled, Age: 47 years old, Period: 1992, Location: Amman, Jordan)
1993	Election to PFLP Central Committee (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1993, Location: Palestine)
2005	Election to PFLP Politburo (Age: 60 years old, Period: 2005, Location: Palestine)
2026	Death of Leila Khaled (Age: 81 years old, Period: Alive (as of 2026))

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Group	List
Establishment of Israel	Golda Meir David Ben-Gurion Chaim Weizmann Moshe Dayan Yitzhak Rabin Menachem Begin Shimon Peres Levi Eshkol Ariel Sharon Farouk I Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat
Palestinian national movement	Yasser Arafat George Habash Nayef Hawatmeh Khalil al-Wazir Abu Iyad Edward Said Hanan Ashrawi Leila Khaled Mahmoud Abbas Ahmad Shukeiri
Iranian Revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei Abolhassan Banisadr Mehdi Bazargan Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Beheshti Ali Shariati Sayyid Qutb Hassan al-Banna Mustafa Barzani

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