Greensboro Daily News · Greensboro, North Carolina · 9 July 1972

CP-1972-009

Palestinian Guerrilla Is Slain

Vengeance Vowed By Popular Front

The Associated Press, Beirut

Transcribed from the clipping

“BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine accused Israel of assassinating one of its leaders Saturday and vowed to avenge his death with ‘a most ruthless strike.’ Ghassan Kanafani, 36, was killed by an explosion that demolished his sports car after he turned on the ignition outside his suburban Beirut apartment. His niece, Lamiss Nejim, 15, also was killed in the blast… Kanafani, editor of the leftist weekly Al Hadaf, was well known in the Middle East as an author of books, short stories and poems, many of them about the plight of the Palestinians. One collection of stories has been translated into Hebrew.… Kanafani, a slight, personable intellectual who chainsmoked and carried a revolver, was born in Acre, Palestine, in 1936, but the family moved to Lebanon after the 1948 war. He was graduated from Damascus University in Syria and taught in Kuwait before returning to Beirut to become a journalist and join the front. He is survived by his mother, his Danish widow Annie and three children.”

Photograph caption

“Ghassan Kanafani”

Context added by this archive

The sixth printing of this killing in the archive and the sixth different headline. The photograph carries his name and nothing else. One of the six, in Anchorage, called him an artist.

Cite this item

"Palestinian Guerrilla Is Slain," Greensboro Daily News, 9 July 1972. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1972-009. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1972-009

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