Present Situation
The ALF was the main faction active in Iraq's small Palestinian population of approximately 40,000, but a very minor group in all other Palestinian communities. With the 2003 American invasion of Iraq 2003 invasion of Iraq and fall of the Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist government in Iraq, large amounts of the Palestinian refugees who had been living in Iraq were forced to flee Iraq for security reasons to other nations. It has maintained a small following in the refugee camps of Lebanon, and has a minuscule presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is headquartered in the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
The ALF gained some degree of importance during the al-Aqsa Intifada, as a distributor of financial contributions from the Iraqi government, to families of "martyrs", with extra grants for the families of suicide bombers.
The ALF published the monthly newspaper Sawt al-Jamahir (Arabic, Voice of the Masses), edited by Rakad Salem.
Samir Sanunu is the representative of ALF in Lebanon.
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