Lebanese National Resistance Front | |
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Participant in Lebanese Civil War | |
Lebanese National Resistance Front logo (1982–2000).
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Active | 1982–1999 |
Groups |
Lebanese Communist Party Organization of Communist Action Arab Socialist Action Party Lebanese Ba'ath Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon Armed Revolutionary Factions Popular Nasserist Organization Arab Democratic Party |
Leaders |
George Hawi Hussein Hamdan Elias Atallah Muhsin Ibrahim Inaam Raad Georges Ibrahim Abdallah Mustapha Saad Ali Eid |
Headquarters |
Beirut Kfar Remen |
Size | 69,000 fighters |
Allies |
Palestine Liberation Organization
Rejectionist Front Al-Mourabitoun Amal Movement Progressive Socialist Party Hezbollah ASALA PKK Syrian Armed Forces |
Opponents |
Lebanese Forces Israel Defense Forces (IDF) South Lebanon Army (SLA) |
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Lebanese National Resistance Front – LNRF (Arabic: جبهة المقاومة الوطنية اللبنانية, transliterated: Jabhat al-Muqawama al-Wataniyya al-Lubnaniyya) or Front National de la Résistance Libanaise (FNRL) in French, but best known by its Arabic acronym, ‘Jammoul’ (جمول), was an underground guerrilla alliance active in Lebanon in the 1980s. It acted as a successor to the Lebanese National Movement.
This organization was founded on September 16, 1982, the same day the Israeli army entered West Beirut. The secretary general of the central committee of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) George Hawi, the secretary general of the Organization of Communist Action – Lebanon (OCAL) Muhsin Ibrahim, the Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon (ASAP-L) secretary general Hussein Hamdan, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region, and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon (SSNP) issued that day a joint communiqué calling for the Lebanese people to raise up in arms and unite into a "Lebanese National Resistance Front" against the Israeli Occupation.