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Leila Khaled
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Person · Member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s political bureau
Leila Khaled
ليلى خالد1944–
Born in Haifa on 9 April 1944, she was four when her family was forced to leave the city after it fell to Zionist forces in April 1948; they settled in Tyre. She joined the Arab Nationalist Movement in 1959, and for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked a TWA airliner on 29 August 1969 and was one of the hijackers of an El Al airliner on 6 September 1970. She was the first secretary of the Palestine Women Organization, founded in 1986, and was elected to the PFLP’s Political Bureau in 2005.
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PersonLeila Khaled was born in PlaceHaifa
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