Chalil al-Wazir

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Chalil Ibrahim Mahmud al-Wazir (born October 10, 1935 in Ramla , Palestine, † April 16, 1988 in Tunis ), also known as Abu Jihad ("Father of Jihad"), was a Palestinian politician and deputy head of the PLO .

Chalil Ibrahim al-Wazir

Life

Chalil al-Wazir was expelled from Ramla as a child with his family during the Palestinian War in 1948 and came to the Gaza Strip as a refugee .

In 1956 he graduated from Alexandria University . He then taught in Saudi Arabia . He stayed there for less than a year and then lived in Kuwait until 1963 . There he met Yasser Arafat know and founded a. a. together with him Fatah . In Kuwait he edited the magazine al-Filastiniya . In 1963 he went to Algeria and opened the first Fatah office there. In 1965 he went to Damascus , where he was responsible for relations with the guerrilla units in Palestine at the PLO's military headquarters. He fought in 1967 in the Six Day War and was responsible for commando operations in the Occupied Territories and within Israel . Al-Wazir was also one of the leaders of the Palestinians during Black September in Jordan in 1970/71. After the defeat, he settled in Beirut , where he was expelled in the 1982 Lebanon War .

He rose to the position of deputy head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and was a member of the Palestinian National Council .

Israel accused al-Wazir of participating in attacks. He is said to have organized the First Intifada from the end of 1987 .

On the night of April 16, 1988, al-Wazir, two bodyguards and a gardener were murdered by a 26-strong Israeli elite commando in Tunisia . The attack was planned by the Mossad . As early as 1997, the AP news agency reported that the later Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was involved in the murder case. Research by the Jedi'ot Acharonot newspaper on the case was only allowed to be published in November 2012 because of the Israeli military censorship. In addition to Ehud Barak, the Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Jaalon , then head of the Sajeret Matkal unit , is said to have been involved.

Al-Wazir was married and had five children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Palestinians. Israel admits murder of PLO deputy. In: Deutsche Welle , November 2, 2012 ( online )
  2. ↑ a b Der Spiegel ( online )
  3. ↑ middle-east-online.com ( online )
  4. ↑ Gwen Ackerman: "Barak Assassination of Abu Jihad" , AP , July 4, 1997. (Date of retrieval: November 5, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Wazir, Chalil al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wazir, Chalil Ibrahim Mahmud al- (full name); Abu Jihad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian politician and deputy head of the PLO
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramla
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1988
Place of death Tunis