Sector : Public Figures, Public Figures

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• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1926

• Age: 90

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Born in Jerusalem in 1926; joined Palestinian revolutionaries in the early 1940s; attended the Military Engineering College of the Syrian Army in 1948; participated in the Golan Height battles in the 1950s; eventually was given the rank of a major and was made commander of the Northern Sector of the Golan Front in 1959; moved to Jordan in 1964, where he joined Fateh; became Commander of the Detection Dept. in military training, and a leader of Fateh operations; in 1970, was appointed commander of the Police Force (Kifah Al-Musalleh); was appointed leader of the PLO after the Palestinian Forces left Jordan in 1970 (until 1979); was promoted to Major-General and appointed Military Advisor of Yasser Arafat in 1982; died on 18 Dec. 1999.




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