Wadi' Haddad
Born in Safad in 1927 to a Greek Orthodox family; educated in Haifa; became a refugee during the 1948 Nakba; graduated in Medicine from the AUB in 1952;
Established together with George Habash a clinic for poor Palestinians in Amman; worked with UNRWA in 1956; participated in the establishment of the ANM; was arrested by Jordan in 1957 and imprisoned for three years;
Went to Syria in 1961; took up commando action from 1963; was a founding member of the PFLP in 1967;
Died in East Germany of leukemia on 28 March 1978. |
