Abu Ali Mustafa

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Abu Ali Mustafa ( Arabic ابو علي مصطفى, DMG Abū ʿAlī Muṣṭafā ) is the Kunya of Mustafa az-Zabri (* 1938 in Arraba near Jenin ; † August 27, 2001 in Ramallah ). He was a Palestinian politician , most recently General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Life

Politically active since 1955, he fought in Jordan as a member of the Arab Nationalists Movement against British influence on Jordanian politics and the army.

After the political parties were banned in Jordan in 1957, Abu Ali Mustafa was arrested and not released until 1961. Subsequently, he continued to work in the Arab nationalist movement.

After the Six Day War in 1967, he and George Habasch founded the PFLP, which is part of the left wing of pan-Arabism and is listed as a terrorist organization by the EU and the USA . He led the first commandos across the Jordan to Palestine , worked underground in the West Bank and was responsible for this area in the PFLP.

In 1970 he led the PFLP in the uprising against the Jordanian king and his army , which escalated in "Black September" ( Jordanian civil war ). He then went to Lebanon to continue operating against Israel .

In 1972 Abu Ali Mustafa became Habasch's deputy. From 1987 to 1991 he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO . In 1999, following negotiations between Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, he was allowed to legally enter the West Bank and settle there.

In July 2000 he succeeded Habasch as General Secretary of the PFLP. On the morning of August 27, 2001, he was deliberately killed with two rockets by the Israeli army in his study .

The PFLP blamed Ariel Sharon for the attack and, in retaliation, killed the Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi of the Moledet party.

Abu Ali Mustafa's successor as General Secretary of the PFLP was Ahmad Saadat . The military arm of the PFLP named itself Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades after him .

literature

  • Death of a Moderate Voice. In: Ha'aretz , November 5, 2001.
  • Lawrence Joffe: Abu Ali Mustafa: Palestinian Leader Who Rejected Peace Accords. In: The Guardian, August 28, 2001.
  • Cheryl A. Rubenberg: The Palestinians. In Search of a Just Peace. Lynne Rienner, Boulder et al. CO 2003, ISBN 1-58826-225-1 , pp. 138, 145.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Amos Harel: Annan equates targeted killings with 'executions without trial' , Ha'aretz , February 5, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Mustafa, Abu Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mustafa az-Zabri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian politician, Secretary General of the PFLP
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Arraba near Jenin
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2001
Place of death Ramallah