Force 14

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The force 14 (force 14) is the Air Force of Fatah , the largest fraction within the Palestine Liberation Organization . Originally intended as a forerunner of a future offensive air force, the Force 14 currently only handles transport and supply flights. No military operations are known. It is also not known whether the Palestinian Air Force still exists. In the 1990s she still took part in training, after which she no longer appeared.

Airport police

With the opening of Gaza International Airport after the Oslo Agreement of 1993, the autonomy authority set up a 200-man airport police. The police unit was mainly recruited from former members of the planned Air Force Force 14 and is subordinate to the civil aviation authority. The police hired the security guards at the airport. The airport was closed by Israel during the Second Intifada in February 2001 and shortly afterwards largely destroyed by the Israeli armed forces . Eventually the runway was ripped open on January 11, 2002.

Known equipment

The airport police operated three Mil-Mi-17 helicopters. These were all destroyed by the Israeli Air Force on December 3, 2001 during the 2nd Intifada .

There is different information about the equipment of the Force 14. The unit is said to have owned the following aircraft, some of which were still from Soviet production: a Bell 206 , a Boeing CH-47 Chinook , an Aermacchi SF-260 , a Fokker 27 and a Douglas DC-8 are considered relatively safe. Owning a working Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 or Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 may also be historical. The aircraft is no longer in use and nothing is known about its operational readiness.

Commanders

  • Usama al-'Ali (first commander)
  • Colonel Husayn Uwayda
  • Colonel Shukri Tabbet
  • Brigadier Fayiz Zaydan (also head of the Palestinian Civil Aviation Authority )

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dan Avidan: The Air Arm of the PLO. (PDF) In: Davar. August 18, 1985, p. 11 , accessed January 14, 2011 (English translation in Near East / South East Asia Report of the American Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) , pp. 43-44).
  2. ^ Gal Luft: The Palestinian Security Services: Between Police and Army, in Middle East Review of International Affairs , June 1999
  3. ^ The Independent, June 11, 2002
  4. ^ Brynjar Lia: A Police Force Without a State: A History of the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank And Gaza . Ithaca Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-86372-304-9 , pp. 321 (English).
  5. ^ Lior Shlein: Colonel Tabbet, The Pilot Who Came from Syria. In: Israeli Air Force Magazine. Retrieved November 29, 2012 (Hebrew) on December 29 , 1999 .
  6. ↑ a b c Bechor, Guy: PLO Lexicon . Ed .: Ministry of Defense . 1995, p. 174, 175 (Hebrew).
  7. ↑ a b c d PLO buys DC-8s, says Israel . In: Flight International . January 17, 1987, p. 2 .