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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Muhammad al-Qadi (December 31, 1938 - April 21, 2015), a Palestinian fighter born in the city of Kawkaba, is considered one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and one of the most prominent Palestinian national figures. His supporters call him Abu Nasser, and he is one of the members of the Arab Nationalists Movement.
His upbringing and education
He was born in the village of Kawkaba in 1938, and studied the first stage of primary school in the village school. He grew up in the village of Kawkaba and suffered difficult living conditions due to poverty, war conditions, and immigration. After the Nakba, he lived in Bureij Camp in the Gaza Strip in 1949 AD and completed his education there. He graduated from the Officers Institute at a later stage.
His political life
He worked as director of the Office of the Governor-General of the Gaza Strip (1958-1963), then joined the Reserve Officers College in the Arab Republic of Egypt in 1963, and then joined the Palestine Liberation Army until 1967. After the defeat of 1967, he traveled to Egypt via Sinai on foot with a group of fighters, and joined There he led the Liberation Army, and through his presence there he worked to regroup and organize the Arab nationalist movement through student frameworks in universities and through some members of the army and those deported from the Gaza Strip. After announcing the establishment of the Popular Front, he assumed responsibility for the Front in the Egyptian arena, and supervised the preparation of several courses of fighters, whereby these elements were equipped and trained and sent to Jordan, after which they carried out their tasks. After that, he was summoned to the Jordanian arena, where he was elected to the Central Committee of the Popular Front in late 1968 AD, and supervised the carrying out of several tasks, including secret general training of fighters, both morally and combatively, to carry out secret missions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the occupied territories, in addition to training the women’s movement. For the front at home and abroad in all neighboring Arab countries, and one of the most important female fighters trained by him was the freedom fighter Laila Khaled, who carried out the first plane hijacking in the year 1970. He then assumed responsibility for the northern sector, the Golan, and southern Lebanon, in addition to supervising the southern sector in Jordan. After the events of Black September in Jordan in 1970, he secretly assumed responsibility for military action in southern Lebanon and the militia in Lebanon. In the early 1973 AD, as a result of political disagreements that spread across the Palestinian resistance movement, whether in the Front or in the Fatah movement, he chose to step down from work in order to contemplate and rethink the reasons for everything that happened, whether at the level of Palestinian or Arab work in general.
In the 1970s, the Front became famous for its hijackings of planes, blowing up airports, storming and blowing up embassies, assassinating the Israeli leadership, and extremist positions. The Popular Front was the first to invent plane hijacking, and Laila Khaled is considered the first woman to hijack a plane in the world. At the beginning of 1969, she joined the Popular Front training camps in Jordan. She received training from a member of the Popular Front (Muhammad Al-Qadi), who was in charge of military training for the forces in Jordan at the time. On February 29, 1969, Laila, with the help of Salim Al-Issawi, hijacked an American passenger plane, Flight No. 840, connecting the Los Angeles/Tel Aviv route. They boarded the plane as it passed from Rome, and half an hour after boarding the plane, they changed the flight path to Damascus, Syria, where they took out the 116 passengers and blew up the plane.
Positions
His progression in positions:
Director of the Office of the Governor General in Gaza.
An officer in the Palestine Liberation Army.
Member of the Arab Nationalists Movement.
One of the founders of the Popular Front.
Official of the Popular Front in Egypt.
Member of the Central Committee and general official in charge of military training in Jordan.
Official of the Popular Front in Lebanon.
Front militia official in Lebanon.
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