(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is on the brink of bankruptcy after PA President Mahmoud Abbas cut funds to the secular Marxist organization, the second largest group in the PLO after Abbas' Fatah. The PFLP does not recognize Israel and opposed the Oslo Accords. In the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections it won 3 of the 132 seats. PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sa'adat is serving a 30-year sentence in Israeli prison for his role in the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in Jerusalem in 2001. In December 2019, the Israel Security Agency dismantled a 50-person PFLP cell that was behind a string of deadly attacks.
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