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{{Short description|Palestinian weekly political and cultural magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
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| based                 = {{ubl|[[Beirut]]|[[Damascus]]|[[Gaza City]]}}
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'''''Al-Hadaf''''' (''{{langx|ar|الهدف}}''), (''{{langx|en|The Target}}'') is a [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] weekly political and cultural magazine published in Gaza City, Palestine. Established in 1969 the magazine was headquartered in several cities, including Beirut and Damascus.
==History and profile==
''Al Hadaf'' was founded in Beirut in 1969<ref name=tandf>{{cite book|title=Europa World Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA2614|year=2004|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=2614|volume=2|location=London; New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Lebanon 2007-2008|year=2007|publisher=Publitec Publications|location=Beirut; Munich|isbn=978-3598077340
|page=548|edition=19th|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945904|doi=10.1515/9783110945904|chapter=The Press}}</ref> by [[Ghassan Kanafani]] as the political mouthpiece of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP),<ref>{{cite web|author=Nezar Andary
|title=Arab Journals Provide Rich But Neglected Sources for Study of Arab World|work=Al Jadid Magazine|access-date=21 September 2014
|url=http://www.aljadid.com/content/arab-journals-provide-rich-neglected-sources-study-arab-world}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Philip Mattar
|title=Encyclopedia of the Palestinians|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkbzYoZtaJMC&pg=PA275|year=2005|publisher=Fact on File, Inc.
|isbn=978-0-8160-6986-6|page=275|location=New York|chapter=Kanafani, Ghassan|author=Muin Rabbani}}</ref> espousing a [[Marxist–Leninist]] version of [[pan-Arab]] [[Palestinian nationalism]]. Kanafani also served as the [[editor-in-chief]] of the weekly.<ref>{{cite web|author=Reem Haddad
|title=In Memory of Ghassan Kanafani|url=http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2003/07/392.shtml|work=Beirut Indy Media|access-date=21 September 2014|date=20 July 2003|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031703/http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2003/07/392.shtml}}</ref> Deputy editor was [[Bassam Abu Sharif]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Muin Rabbani|editor=Philip Mattar|title=Encyclopedia of the Palestinians|year=2005|publisher=Facts on File, Inc.
|location=New York|page=13|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkbzYoZtaJMC&pg=PA13|isbn=978-0-8160-6986-6|chapter=Abu Sharif, Bassam}}</ref> In 1972, Kanafani was killed by a car bomb, but ''Al Hadaf'' remains in publication. Abu Sharif replaced him as editor of the magazine.<ref name=tandf/><ref>{{cite book|editor=Cheryl A. Rubenberg|title=Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict|year=2010|publisher=[[Lynne Rienner Publishers]]|page=8|location=Boulder, CO; London|isbn=978-1-58826-686-6|editor-link=Cheryl Rubenberg|url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269621
|doi=10.1515/9781588269621}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Periodicals and Pamphlets Published by the Palestinian Commando Organizations
|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|volume=1|issue=1|doi=10.2307/2536009|year=1971|page=137|jstor=2536009}}</ref> The headquarters of the magazine was moved to Damascus, Syria, in 1986 where it was subject to the strict censorship of the Syrian government.<ref>{{cite journal
|author=Marina Eleftheriadou|title=Building a Proto-State on Quicksand: The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian State-in-Exile in Lebanon|journal=[[The Middle East Journal]]|date=Spring 2021|volume=75|issue=1|page=110|doi=10.3751/75.1.15|s2cid=236573912}}</ref>
''Al-Hadaf'' is based in Gaza City, Palestine.<ref>{{cite web|title=Contact us|url=https://hadfnews.ps/contact|website=Al Hadaf|access-date=1 November 2023}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of magazines in Lebanon]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{Official website|https://hadfnews.ps/}}
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