Birth: NULL/NULL/1953 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Al-Bireh in 1953 to a family originally from the village of Deir Tarif, near Ramleh, destroyed in 1948; joined the National Liberation Movement within the framework of the GUPS in 1967; became a member of the PFLP in 1969; was first arrested by Israeli authorities in Feb. 1969 and detained for three months; graduated in 1975 from the UNRWA Teachers’ College in Ramallah, specializing in Mathematics; was repeatedly arrested between 1970-92 and imprisoned for over 11 years in total: in 1970 for 28 months, in 1973 for 10 months, in 1975 for 45 days, in 1976 for 4 years, in 1985 for 2½ years, in 1989 for 9 months (administrative detention) and in 1992 for 13 months (administrative detention); was elected member of the PFLP Central Committee in April 1981 and re-elected in 1993; was elected to the PFLP politburo in March 1993; opposed the Oslo process from its outset; was ‘wanted’ by Israel since 1993; became responsible of the PFLP’s West Bank branch in 1994; was arrested by the PA in 1995 and 1996; was elected Sec.-Gen. of the PFLP in Oct. 2001 after the assassination of Mustafa Zabri on 27 Aug. 2001; was again arrested by the PA on 15 Jan. 2002 following the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Ze’evi by PFLP activists (retaliating the killing of Zabri) and was jailed at Jericho Prison in May 2002 as part of a US-brokered deal to end the siege of Pres. Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah compound in exchange for an American-British guarantee of the continued imprisonment of the several wanted Palestinians in a British-guarded jail; headed the ‘Marytr Abu Ali Mustafa’ list in the Jan. 2006 elections and was elected as PLC member; was forcibly taken by Israeli forces from his Jericho jail on 14 March 2006 and now awaits trial at a military court in the West Bank for several security offenses (after Israel’s Atty.-Gen. decided there was insufficient evidence to try for Ze’evi’s murder).
