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"Muhammad Jihad" Ibrahim Ahmad al-Amouri (Abu Jihad;1938 – ) is a Palestinian politician and military commander with the rank of
major general. Born and raised in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, he is
considered one of the founding and main leaders of the Palestinian National
Liberation Movement - Fatah, and one of the most prominent figures of the
contemporary Palestinian revolution. He held positions A high-ranking leader in
the Fatah movement, and he was a member of the Fatah Central Committee, the
movement's Revolutionary Council, and the general advisory council of the
movement. He is one of the leading figures of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, a member of the Palestinian National Council, and one of the very
close associates of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, and one of the
staunchest opponents of the Oslo Accords. He insisted on not returning to
Palestine under Israeli control.
his upbringing
"Muhammad Jihad" Ibrahim Ahmad Al-Amouri was born in
the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in 1938, three months after his birth.
His military and political career
In his youth, he joined the Palestinian National Liberation
Movement "Fatah" and the contemporary Palestinian revolution after
their launch in 1965. He assumed command of the special military battalion in
the Fatah movement, and led the battalion in the October 1973 war on the
Egyptian front. Then he returned with the battalion to Lebanon after the end of
the war.
In 1975, under his leadership, the "Ajnadayn Forces"
of the Fatah movement were formed, and he led the forces in the battles of the
Lebanese civil war. His forces also took over the protection of the Palestinian
camps and the headquarters of the Palestinian leadership in the Lebanese
cities.
In 1982, he led his forces to confront the Israeli forces during
the Lebanon War and the siege of Beirut, then left Lebanon with his forces for
Algeria, and from there in Algeria he led the body of the Fatah movement in the
North African region, and was a member of the Revolutionary Council of the
Fatah movement.
In August 1988, he was elected a member of the Central Committee
of the Fatah movement during the movement's Fifth General Conference held in
Tunis, and he continued in his position as a member of the Central Committee of
the movement until August 2009.
When the Oslo Accords were presented in 1993 to the Central
Committee of the Fatah movement, he strongly opposed it, and after the signing
of the agreement and the return of the Palestinian leadership from Algeria and
Tunisia to the Palestinian territories, Al-Amouri refused to return to
Palestine under Israeli control and before all of its lands were liberated, and
thus decided to settle in the capital Jordanian Amman to the present day, and
served in the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Al-Amouri was a member of the Palestinian National Council in
the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in 1996 he and Farouk Qaddoumi were
refused Israeli permits to enter the West Bank to participate in the meetings
of the Palestinian National Council, and in 2007 Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas was able to obtain prior approval from the Israeli Prime Minister in Then
Ehud Olmert allowed Amouri and Qaddoumi to enter the West Bank for three days
to participate in the meetings of the Fatah Central Committee, but they also
absolutely refused it.
In May 1999, Al-Amouri and Farouk Al-Qaddoumi held talks with
the Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouk Al-Shara, in the Syrian capital, Damascus,
on the latest developments in the Palestinian cause.
Prior to the sixth general conference of the Fatah movement,
which was held in Bethlehem in August 2009, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
met with Al-Amouri in the capital, Amman, to try to persuade him to participate
in the conference, but Al-Amouri strongly refused, and Al-Amouri suggested that
the conference be held outside the Palestinian territories so that everyone
could From the audience, a "sharp exchange" occurred between him and
President Abbas, who insisted on holding the conference inside the Palestinian
territories. Thus, Al-Amouri prepared a farewell letter in which he blamed the
Fatah Central Committee for "the consequences of the calamities and
defeats that befell the movement." Immediately after the conference was
held in Bethlehem, Al-Amouri decided not to participate in it and not run for
the Fatah Central Committee elections that took place during the conference.
Al-Amouri asked, "How does the resistance movement hold its conference
under the spears of occupation?"
Al-Amouri was chosen in 2011 as a member of the Fatah General
Advisory Council, which was introduced at the time for the first time.
Al-Amouri, who is considered one of the most prominent figures
in the Fatah movement and the Palestine Liberation Organization, is known as
one of the strong opponents of the approach of Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas. Al-Amouri is also considered one of the staunchest opponents of the Oslo
Accords. Only Al-Amouri and Qaddoumi were members of the Fatah Central
Committee outside Palestine, as they refused to enter the territories.
Palestinian.
his personal life
His father is Ibrahim al-Amouri, the commander of the military
"earthquake faction" in the Great Palestinian Revolution, and his
older brother is the Palestinian poet Jasser Ibrahim al-Amouri.
In August 2022, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called
Muhammad Jihad al-Amouri to check on his health, after he was ill.
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