Birth: NULL/NULL/1953 Death:NULL/NULL/1995
Born in Gaza in 1951 to a refugee family, which was forced out of Zarnuqa, a village near Al-Ramleh, in 1948; studied Mathematics at Birzeit University and Medicine in Egypt, graduating in 1981; trained as a doctor in Egypt; got at the same time inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood; returned to the OPT, practiced Medicine in Jerusalem; then moved to Gaza and co-founded with former fellow students Abdul Aziz Odeh and Bashir Musa – the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine in the early 1980s ans derved as its Sec.-Gen. until his death; was arrested by Israel and sentenced to one year in 1983, and to three years in 1986 for his political activities; eventually was deported to South Lebanon in Aug. 1988 (was the only person deported while still in prison during the first Intifada); relocated to Yarmouk RC, outside Damascus; in Jan. 1994, was a key player in setting up the National Alliance, a coalition of eight PLO groups, Islamic Jihad and Hamas rejecting the Oslo process and the peace deal with Israel; was accused by Israel to have been behind some of the 1995 suicide bomb attacks in Israel; was assassinated in Malta, apparently by Mossad agents, on 26 Oct. 1995; his funeral in Damascus on 1 Nov. 1995 was attended by some 40,000 people.
