| Abu Ali Mustafa |
Article Index for Abu |
Website Links For Abu |
Information AboutAbu Ali Mustafa |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ABU ALI MUSTAFA | |
| 1938 births | |
| 2001 deaths | |
| palestinian people | |
| arab nationalists | |
| assassinated palestinian politicians | |
|
Abu Ali Mustafa was born in 1938, in the northern West Bank town of Arraba , the son of a farmer. In 1955 he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), and two years later was arrested by the Jordanian authorities for his political activities. On his release in 1961, he took charge of the ANM's military operations in the northern West Bank . Following the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in the 1967 War , he left his homeland and would spend 32 years in exile, mainly in Damascus and Jordan . Abu Ali joined George Habash and other left-wing members of the ANM in establishing the Marxist Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine in 1967, and became a leading member of the new organisation. He was also a prominent member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation rising to become a member of its ruling Executive Committee. He was for a long time deputy to George Habash's leadership of the PFLP. In September 1999, after 32 years of exile, he returned to the West Bank under a deal struck between Yasser Arafat and Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Barak . In July 2000 he was elected as the new general secretary of the PFLP after Habash retired. He was killed in a targeted assassination by two rockets fired from an Israeli helicopter as he sat at his desk in Ramallah on August 27, 2001 . He was one of the most senior Palestinian political leaders killed by Israel. The PFLP renamed their armed wing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories after him, as the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades , while he was succeeded as Secretary General by Ahmad Saadat . He was married with three daughters and two sons. |
|
|