Summary
A Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine commander in the Saida area during the War of the Camps whose memoir (Nofal 2006) is a central cited source for Chapter 7 of Parkinson’s study, on Amal torture, the Magdousheh front, Syrian targeting of women couriers and DFLP gender dynamics (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.161-162, p.167, p.172).
Details
- Nofal observes that Amal tortured many prisoners, a practice people noted across both Saida and Sur (Nofal 2006, 39, as cited, Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.161-162).
- Despite the PNSF’s October 5, 1986 ceasefire with Amal, Nofal met Fatah and PSP representatives to coordinate expelling Amal from Saida’s eastern suburbs, opening the Magdousheh front (Nofal 2006, 53-55, as cited, Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.167).
- Nofal wondered whether the centralized communication system linking ground commanders to PLO offices in Tunisia was expressly designed to curb local leaders’ independence (Nofal 2006, 241, as cited, Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.168).
- Nofal emphasizes that Syrian forces explicitly targeted women, caught one of his couriers and referred to her by name, and imprisoned two female DFLP cadres to try to force the DFLP to withdraw from Magdousheh (Nofal 2006, 365, as cited, Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.172).
- Nofal received a nurse’s complaint of harassment and corruption against her supervisor Abu Fahad and, with Abdulkarim, took her report, transfer request and proposal for clandestine work seriously (Nofal 2006, 296, as cited, Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.174-175).
- Rashidiyeh’s siege toll — 590 injured and approximately 200 houses destroyed — is cited from Nofal 2006, 44 (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.170).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, War of the Camps