Talal Naji

Talal Naji (Arabic: طلال ناجي‎; born April 1946) is the secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). He has been deputy secretary general of the group since 1973 and succeeds Ahmed Jibril, founder of the PFLP-GC, who died in July 2021.

Biography
Naji was born in the Christian town of Nazareth in April 1946 to a Sunni Muslim family, he was a member of the Palestine Liberation Front before joining Jibril's PFLP-CG in 1969.

He was elected as secretary-general of the PFLP-CG in 2021 following the death of Ahmed Jibril.

He met Qassem Soleimani in 2015.

In June 2019, Talal Naji stated that 1,858 Palestinians died in Syria fighting in the ranks of Syrian loyalist forces.

In 2022, interviewed by the Iranian agency Tasmin, he paid tribute to Qassem Soleimani by calling him "leader of the Axis of Resistance" and adding that the Axis of Resistance is more prepared than ever. According to him, Soleimani declared to him "Transmit to every Palestinian fighter, to every Palestinian mujahideen, to every martyred father and to every martyred mother, that we accept their hands".

In 2023, with a delegation of the PFLP-CG, he presented the Palestinian situation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Baathist Syrian government, Dr. Faisal Mekdad.