On May 7, 2001, the Israeli Navy seized a Palestinian boat filled with heavy weapons in the port of Haifa. Jibril is rumored to have been behind the shipment of weapons, which were bound for the Gaza Strip.
On May 20, 2002, Jibril's son, Jihad Ahmed Jibril, who headed the military wing of PFLP-GC, was killed in a car bombing in Beirut. The assassination was blamed on Israel, although the Jibril family and the PFLP-GC have many enemies among both Palestinians and others in Lebanon.