A faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) which was established in April 1968 as a result of a personal conflict between Ahmad Jibril, who heads this faction, and George Habash. Jibril, who had served as a captain in the Syrian army, established himself in Damascus and dictated a pro-Syrian line in the organization. The organization, which is quite small, achieved prominence due to a series of attacks in the 1970s; hijacking of a Swissair jet, the terrorist attack on Avivim children bus (May 1970) and a massacre of Israeli civilians in Kiryat Shmona. Nonetheless, the group’s primary notoriety derives from the prisoner exchange known as the Jibril Agreement of May 1985. In this exchange 1,150 Palestinian prisoners were released in return for three Israeli soldiers (Hezi Shai, Nissim Salem and Yosef Grof) who had been taken captive in the summer of 1982. Another terrorist attack carried out by the group was the "Night of the Gliders" (November 1987) in which a terrorist belonging to the organization infiltrated into Israel on a glider, broke into a military camp and killed six soldiers. The organization has little influence in practice today, (limited to Judea and Samaria, not in the Gaza Strip) and its activists cooperate with infrastructures of the mother organization, the PFLP.