Birth: NULL/NULL/1932 Death:NULL/NULL/1982
From Kufr Qalil, near Nablus, in 1932; studied Military Engineering at the Jordanian Military College, graduating in 1951; enrolled at military courses in Britain in 1954; joined the Jordanian army in 1956 and became an infantry brigade commander; underwent further military training in Egypt and Iraq in 1958 as well as in Britain then the US (1960 and 1966); left the Jordanian army in Sept. 1970 and joined Fateh; became Fateh commander of the Yarmouk forces; chaired the PLO’s Higher Military Committee in the Lebanon from the late 1970s; was a senior aide of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and served as his chief-of-staff; military commander of the PLO forces; PNC member; served mostly in Lebanon, holding the rank of a Brigadier; in 1976, was involved in direct consultations with the US ambassador to Lebanon about protection of the US Embassy; was elected member of the Fateh Exec. Committee in its Aug. 1980 conference in Damascus; was killed in the Beka’a Valley, Lebanon, on 29 Sept. 1982 (PLO leaders accused Syria, while others suspected the Abu Nidal organization to be behind the assassination); was buried in Al-Yarmouk Refugee Camp, Syria; the PA has named its Military Academy in Jericho after him.
