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Today, on April 9, 1944, Leila Khaled was born in Haifa. She is a Palestinian socialist and an English teacher.
At the age of 4, she was forced to leave her home with her family and settled in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon during the period known as the Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were subjected to ethnic cleansing during the creation of the State of Israel.
In 1967, she joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a communist faction, and took part in military operations abroad.
One of the operations that brought Khaled worldwide recognition was the hijacking of a TWA flight from Rome to Tel Aviv in 1969. This event resulted in the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. Due to her role in the incident, Khaled was imprisoned in Syria for six weeks and then released.
She later took an active role in the General Union of Palestinian Women and was involved in caring for the wounded following Israeli attacks on Palestinian refugee camps.
Regarding the role of women in the movement, Khaled made the following statement to Palestine Chronicle: “Women give life. That is why they feel danger more than men. When they participate, they are more loyal to the revolution because they also defend the lives of their children. When I gave birth to two children, I became more and more convinced each time that I had to do everything possible to protect them and build a better future for them. I felt this for the women who had lost their children.”
She also spoke about her hope for a multiethnic and democratic Palestine: “A place where everyone lives under equal conditions. Jews, Muslims, I do not care about a person’s religion. I believe in the human being itself. Human beings can sit together and decide the future of this land together. But I cannot accept that I do not have the right, now, to return to my city. Like six million Palestinians.”
Khaled, who currently lives in Jordan, continues to be active in the PFLP and the Palestinian liberation movement.

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