The Gaza Strip, the sole territory of the All-Palestine Protectorate-a Palestinian state declared in October 1948-became the focal point of the Palestinian fedayeen activity. The earliest infiltrations were often to access the land's agricultural products they had lost as a result of the war, or to attack Israeli military, and sometimes civilian targets. Įmerging from among the Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled from their villages as a result of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, in the mid-1950s the fedayeen began mounting cross-border operations into Israel from Syria, Egypt and Jordan. The meaning of secular, democratic and non-sectarian, however, greatly diverged among fedayeen factions. The ideology of the Palestinian fedayeen was mainly left-wing nationalist, socialist or communist, and their proclaimed purpose was to defeat Zionism, claim Palestine and establish it as "a secular, democratic, nonsectarian state".
Most Palestinians consider the fedayeen to be " freedom fighters", while most Israelis consider them to be "terrorists".Ĭonsidered symbols of the Palestinian national movement, the Palestinian fedayeen drew inspiration from guerrilla movements in Vietnam, China, Algeria and Latin America. Palestinian fedayeen (from the Arabic fidā'ī, plural fidā'iyūn, فدائيون) are militants or guerrillas of a nationalist orientation from among the Palestinian people. For other similarly named guerrilla movements, see Fedayeen.įedayeen from Fatah in Beirut, Lebanon, 1979 This article is about Palestinian guerrilla movements.
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