#Notable deaths install
This year, opposition leaders accused him of seeking to install a dictatorship by overstaying his mandate and becoming more authoritarian. After taking office as president in 2017, Moise, a banana exporter-turned-politician, faced fierce protests over corruption allegations and his management of the economy.
#Notable deaths series
Haiti, a country of about 11 million people and the poorest in the western hemisphere, has struggled to achieve stability since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, and has grappled with a series of coups and foreign interventions. Haitian President Jovenel Moise, 53, was shot dead by gunmen in his private residence overnight on July 7, sparking an international outcry amid fears of a descent into chaos in the impoverished Caribbean nation. PFLP-GC fighters fought alongside Syrian troops in battles to retake Yarmouk camp, a district in Damascus that is home to the largest concentration of Palestinians in Syria.
For decades he took the side of Syria's government, and was criticized by some Palestinians for aligning his group behind President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the civil war there over the past decade. Among those released was Hamas co-founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The deal saw the release of more than 1,000 prisoners, including long-serving Palestinian detainees, in return for the release of three Israeli soldiers. A prisoner swap Jibril negotiated with Israel in 1985 won him fame among Palestinians at the time. It was also one of the first groups to use suicide squads. According to Israel's International Insitute for Counter-Terrorism, these included the 1970 bombing of a Swiss airliner in mid-air, killing all 47 passengers and crew, and a 1972 attempt to blow up an El Al plane using a booby-trapped record player. In its early years the group carried out dozens of attacks in the Middle East and Europe, including airplane bombings, kidnappings and letter bombs.
Jibril founded his PFLP-GC in 1968, after splitting from the PFLP of Palestinian nationalist leader George Habash. Ahmed Jibril, whose Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command was one of the main guerrilla groups fighting against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s and more recently backed Syria's government in civil war, died July 7 at the age of 83.
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