Thousands attend the burial of Palestinian leader George Habash in Jordan, chanting against Israel and vowing to continue their resistance.

Palestinians carry a mock coffin during a symbolic funeral for George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. Habash, whose radical PLO faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda, died Saturday in Jordan, of a heart attack at the age of 81. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:18:19

Thousands attend the burial of Palestinian leader George Habash in Jordan, chanting against Israel and vowing to continue their resistance. Veteran supporters and leading Palestinian politicians gathered at a cemetery outside Amman to pay their respects to Habash, who died on Saturday from a heart condition. Habash, who was in his early 80s, was born in the town of Lydda in what was then British-ruled Palestine and is now part of occupied territories. He was in medical school at the American University of Beirut when war broke out in 1948 over the creation of Israel, turning his wealthy Christian family and thousands of other Palestinians into refugees. Habash founded Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the late 1960s, building the group into a force in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), second in size to Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. He is hailed as a hero by many Palestinians because of his organization's resistance against the Zionist regime.