He referred to himself as a "Fida'i" (meaning one who sacrifices their life for a cause), a term which militants often use for suicide bombers.
In the novel Prayers for the Assassin, the main character Rakkim Epps is an ex-fedayeen soldier.
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The term was widely used and is still used to describe the volunteers, and can be found in literature and Armenian revolutionary songs.
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Paris Match Reporter Claudine Vernier-Palliez accompanied a Fedayeen commando unit on their strike mission against the DHL aircraft.
In 1955, the frequency and effectiveness of Fedayeen attacks being launched from the Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip and the Jordanian-controlled Hebron Hills area against isolated Israeli civilian communities increased, and the IDF searched for new ways to eliminate the threat.
Its location was initially the main reason for its founding, as an Israeli civilian presence was important for cementing control of the area so as to prevent any future invasion from Egypt or its use as a staging area for fedayeen attacks, and indeed this rationale was echoed following the 1967 Six Day War by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Luttif Afif (1937? or 1945? – 6 September 1972), alias Issa (Jesus in Arabic), was the commander of the group of Palestinian fedayeen who invaded the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972 and took as hostage nine members of Israel's Olympic team after killing two who resisted.
In a news report by Laurie Mylroie, several documents are discussed that speak of "Arab Fedayeen" (i.e. non-Iraqis) and the use of "of the people" bombs.
Sometime later CIA was reported to have been told by "Fedayeen senior official" that on the orders of Black September, two students, using Lebanese or Cypriot passports, had passed through the Canadian border and come to Washington, where with the help of a local professor, had rented a car and got the weapons for the assassination.