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Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, speaks to journalists holding microphones and recorders in front of him. Nayef Hawatmeh speaks passionately at a microphone to a large seated crowd under a tent, following a military parade, with several men seated beside him.
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Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, speaks to journalists holding microphones and recorders in front of him.
Nayef Hawatmeh Following the issuance of a declaration of independence by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Nayef Hawatmeh, one of the architects of the declaration, addresses the press in November 1988.

Nayef Hawatmeh

Jordanian-Palestinian politician
Also known as: Abu al-Nuf, Nāyif Ḥawātimah
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Nayef Hawatmeh (born November 17, 1938, Al-Salṭ, Jordan) is a Jordanian-Palestinian leader who founded the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and has been its secretary-general from 1969. Born in Jordan, Hawatmeh was born into a Melkite Catholic clan that spanned Transjordan (now Jordan), the British mandate of Palestine, and Syria. Hawatmeh attended the Arab University of Beirut in Lebanon, where he became a militant in the Arab Nationalist Movement, which at its...

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