Born in Umm Khaled (re-named by Jewish Agency as Netania) in 1938; received his secondary education in Tulkarem, then moved to Kuwait and Algeria where he worked as a school teacher; joined Fateh; became a PLO leader; moved to France in the 1960s, serving as Fateh representative; was bombed in his house in Paris on 8 Dec. 1972 by the Israeli Mossad (the operation was supervised by ex-Israeli Minister of Information Aharon Yariv); died of his injuries a month later on 9 Jan. 1973.

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