Red Salute to Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad (Major General Daoud Maragha) – PFLP
The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Polit Bureau of PFLP mourned its comrade, the great national leader of Palestine, Major General Daoud Maragha “Abu Ahmed Fouad,” the former deputy secretary-general of the Popular Front and one of the most prominent military leaders of the Palestinian revolution, who passed away on Friday (18th January 2025), after a struggle with illness.
The party said in an obituary statement: “Despite his suffering from illness in recent months, Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad remained present in his heart and mind, following the developments of the Palestinian struggle, preoccupied with following the destructive Zionist war on the Gaza Strip. He believed in the inevitability of the victory of the resistance and saw in the determination of Gaza, its people and fighters, and the bravery of its resistance, evidence of the ability of the new Palestinian generation to create new equations that put the occupation in an existential predicament.”
The Party pledged to the masses of the heroic Palestine people, the free people of our nation and the world, our late comrade, and the blood of our martyrs and heroes across the battlefields to remain loyal to those who paved the path of freedom with their blood.
In the presence of leaders and representatives of the Palestinian resistance factions, Dr. Samir Al-Rifai, the Palestinian Ambassador to Syria, the leadership, cadres, members and and a large crowd of people from the Palestinian camps, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine buried Major General Abu Ahmed Fouad in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
After the body was buried, Comrade Omar Murad, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front and head of the Political Department addressed to the people on behalf of the Party:
Today we bid farewell to a great figure of the revolution and armed struggle, a historic leader who was witnessed by all the battlefields in the heart of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon… a genuine political, national, nationalist, and international leader. Today we bid farewell to our comrade, former Deputy General Secretary Major General Abu Ahmed Fouad. In the line-up of Comrades Al-Hakim (Dr. George Habash), Abu Ali Mustafa, Abu Ammar, Abu Jihad, Al-Yassin, Al-Shaqaqi, Haniyeh, Al-Sinwar, and all the martyrs for the course of Palestine National Liberation, Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad also fully engaged in the revolutionary struggle, relentlessly performed all duties, and fulfilled the trust. He confronted the enemies who pursued him until his last moments.
We, all the remaining
comrades and all the masses in the resistance have sworn to continue the path of the revolution and struggle until achieving the goals and liberating Palestine. We all bid farewell to our leader at a time when our people are celebrating the victory of Gaza and the people of Gaza, and the guns of the revolutionaries are drawn, declaring the defeat of the fascist Zionist enemy that accepted the complete withdrawal from Gaza and the liberation of the prisoners, the eagles of freedom, despite the war of extermination, ethnic cleansing and mass destruction.
We also salute to the heroes of Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa and all the fighters and to all the resistance forces and to all the countries that stood with our people and our people in Gaza, supporting our struggle.
Abu Ahmed, revolutionary leader, we bid you farewell today with more determination and resolve to work to achieve Palestinian national unity within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization based on the program of resistance and liberation.
Glory to the martyrs, freedom to the prisoners, victory to our great people!
(Compiled from the statements of PFLP Military Wing Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades and Polit Bureau of PBLP, Issued by PFLP International Media Office in Beirut, Lebanon)
