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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Qaddoura Musa is a Palestinian who served as the governor of the Jenin governorate of the Palestinian National Authority, located in the northern West Bank.
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Qaddura Musa was the director of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in the northern West Bank in May 2002. He is credited with issuing the official death toll of 56 Palestinians for the Jenin massacre. Palestinian spokespeople outside the camp had earlier estimated that number at around 500 and an Israeli spokesperson arriving at the camp declared it to be between 150 and 250.
his death
At approximately 11.30pm on May 1, 2012, unknown assailants opened fire on Musa's home in Jenin, according to Mujahid Rabiya, a police spokesman. The head of the office of President Hussein al-Araj told the Palestinian News Agency that the ruler left his home with the security chiefs to check the security situation in the city when he was attacked by a killer who killed him. He arrived at Jenin Governmental Hospital in the early hours of May 2, 2012 suffering from heart pain and died in intensive care. The funeral was attended by thousands from different cities in the West Bank.
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