Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

For example, the DFLP carried out several attacks against the Lebanese Army.

The DFLP continued to cautiously support Arafat's attempts to open negotiations with Israel, but this was not uncontroversial within the membership.

In 1999, at a meeting in Cairo, the DFLP and the PFLP agreed to cooperate with the PLO leadership in final status negotiations with Israel.

Its military capacity has been fading fast since the 1993 cease-fire between the PLO and Israel, which the DFLP respected despite its objections to the Oslo Accords.

In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the U. S .- backed Rogers Plan that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel and for Israel's negotiated withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, but the plan mentioned the West Bank to be under King Hussein's authority and that was unacceptable for the more radical organizations ; the PLO, George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), and Naif Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) opposed the plan, criticized and scandalized Nasser.

This document, which was accepted by the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) after lobbying by Fatah and DFLP, cautiously introduced the concept of a two-state solution in the PLO, and caused a split in the organization leading to the formation of the Rejectionist Front, where radical organizations such as the PFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestine Liberation Front and others gathered with the backing of Syria, Libya and Iraq to oppose Arafat and the mainstream PLO stance.

With the swift rise of Islamism and religious groups such as Hamas in the 1980s, the DFLP faded among the Palestinian youth, and internal confusion over the future path of the organization paralysed political decision-making.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

Succumbing to pressure from PLO sub-groups such as the PFLP, DFLP and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ), Arafat aligned the PLO with the Communist and Nasserist Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ).

Some left-wing Palestininan movements, such as the PFLP and the DFLP, began openly questioning the Jordanian monarchy and raising slogans calling for the " resistance " to seize power, while also stirring up conservative and religious feelings by provocative anti-religious statements and actions.

The PFLP and DFLP subsequently both spawned a number of breakaway factions, such as the PFLP-GC, the PLF and the FIDA.

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) ( Arabic: ' الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين ', transliterated Al-Jabha al-Dimuqratiya Li-Tahrir Filastin ) is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist, secular political and military organization.

In 1974, the same year as the PDFLP changed its name into the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), it acted as a strong supporter of the 1974 Ten Point Program.

The First Intifada ( 1987 – 93 ) provoked a shift in Palestinian politics towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which proved a severe handicap for the largely diaspora-based DFLP.

* The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) – Third largest, communist

In 1969, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) formed as a separate, ostensibly Maoist, organization under Nayef Hawatmeh and Yasser Abd Rabbo, initially as the PDFLP.

Following the death of Yasser Arafat in November 2004, the PFLP entered discussions with the DFLP and the Palestinian People's Party aimed at nominating a joint left-wing candidate for the presidential elections.

The following organizations have been allegedly established with assistance from Eastern Bloc security services: the PLO, the National Liberation Army of Bolivia ( created in 1964 with help from Ernesto Che Guevara ); the National Liberation Army of Colombia ( created in 1965 with help from Cuba ), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) in 1969, and the Secret Army for Liberation of Armenia in 1975.

In 1974, 102 Israeli Jewish school children from Safed on a school trip were taken hostage by a Palestinian militant group Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) while sleeping in a school in Maalot.

Both the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) were active participants.

In early 1968, a leftist, supposedly Maoist, faction headed by Hawatmeh broke away from PFLP to form the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP, initially PDFLP ).

Al Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades, the DFLP, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad all claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), the land was to be used to construct "[...] eight Jewish industrial villages, in implementation of the so-called Galilee Development Plan of 1975.

The DFLP declared that its goal was to ‘’ create a people ’ s democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination, a state without classes and national oppression, a state which allows Arabs and Jews to develop their national culture .’’

The DFLP has been largely unable to make its presence felt during the al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in 2000.

This caused discontent among several of the PLO factions ; the PFLP, DFLP and other parties formed a breakaway organization, the Rejectionist Front.

By that time, the Rejectionist Front was composed primarily of leftist groups, among them the PFLP, DFLP, General Command, PLF, and numerous other small factions.

At this point, both the PFLP and the P / DFLP had embraced Marxism-Leninism, a break with the ANM heritage that would be replicated in other branches, and tear what remained of the movement apart.

Even though the PFLP and DFLP remain very active in Palestinian politics and both have played a military role in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, their political support is rather reduced, especially within the occupied territories.

In areas beyond Syria's control, it soon became apparent that the independent Palestinian organizations Fatah, PFLP and DFLP had far stronger support.

Some sources also mention the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), and the Muslim Lebanese al-Murabitun militia among the attackers.

The Arab Nationalist Movement also continued to work in their separate organizational structures in Syria, despite being formally committed to Nasser's order to unite in the ASU ; much of this organization later dissolved into different political groups, including the ASU and the Palestinian PFLP and DFLP factions.

DFLP was badly hit by the 1970 September crack-down in Jordan ( Black September ).

From the early 1980s the DFLP was seen as the most pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese of the PLO member organisations.

Essentially the Damascus-headquartered DFLP under Hawatmeh was able to retain its external branches, whereas the majority of the organization within Palestine, mainly on the West Bank, was taken over by FIDA.

The DFLP was subsequently represented in the Palestinian delegation at the unsuccessful Camp David negotiations of July 2000.

Still, while pioneering Palestinian-Israeli peace talks through making early contact with Jewish and Israeli peace campaigners, including Matzpen, the DFLP simultaneously conducted numerous small bombings and minor assaults against Israeli targets, refusing to give up the armed struggle.

In 1978 the DFLP temporarily switched sides and joined the Rejectionist Front after clashing with Arafat on several issues, but it would continue to serve as a mediator in the factional disputes of the PLO.

The adoption of the program, under pressure from Arafat's Fatah faction and some minor groups ( e. g. DFLP, al-Sa ' iqa ) led many hard-line groups to break away from the Arafat and the mainstream PLO members, forming the Rejectionist Front.

They were elected as DFLP delegates, or appointed to serve as delegates from various PLO branches, at the last PNC in 1988.