Palestinian Popular Committees

The Palestinian Popular Committees (Arabic: اللجان الشعبية الفلسطينية‎) was a Palestinian movement, founded in 1983. The movement emerged mainly amongst youths in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, after a split away from the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Palestinian Popular Committees were supported by the Communist Labour Party of Syria. The movement backed the Abdel-Fattah Ghanem-led splinter group of the Palestine Liberation Front. The organization was disbanded in 1985, as a campaign of arrests was launched against the Communist Party of Labour in Syria.[1]

Not to be confused with Popular Resistance Committees.

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20071122232833/http://www.albayan.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=Article&cid=1164201518878&pagename=Albayan%2FArticle%2FFullDetail
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