Mohammed Dahlan

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Indonesian politician, see Muhammad Dahlan (Politician) .

Mohammed Dahlan (born September 29, 1961 in the Chan Yunis refugee camp , Arabic محمد دحلان, DMG Muḥammad Daḥlān ) is a Palestinian politician. Under Yasser Arafat , the Fatah politician was the head of security for the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip and was in charge of the Palestinian intelligence service (Preventive Security Service). He was involved in numerous scandals and therefore had repeated problems in the party. In 2007, he tried to overthrow the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and failed. He then had to move to the West Bank . In June 2011 he was expelled from the party and eventually accused of being the author of the poisoning of Yasser Arafat. Dahlan is said to have close contacts with the CIA and the Israeli Shin Bet .

Life

Mohammed Dahlan was born as the youngest of 6 children of a refugee family in the then Egyptian-administered Gaza Strip. He was active for Fatah as a teenager and was imprisoned eleven times by the Israelis between 1981 and 1986. During his four-year tenure, he became fluent in Hebrew .

politics

With the autonomy he became the head of security and with a police force of 20,000 men the most powerful man in the Gaza Strip, while Jibril ar-Radschub held this post in the West Bank. In 1997 he was accused of embezzling taxpayers' money. Because he went against Hamas, he was popular with the West. Its power grew to such an extent that the Gaza Strip was already referred to as "Dahlanistan". In 2002 he resigned from his post. In 2003 Mahmud Abbas made him security minister for a few months under pressure from the West. After Abbas' resignation, Dahlan was replaced by Hakam Balawi .

In 2006 Dahlan won a seat in parliament and with the help of the CIA began to take action against Hamas, which had come to power. In an attempted coup in June, however, his men were defeated, which led to the end of Fatah in the Gaza Strip. His house in Gaza was destroyed and Dahlan, who was absent from the country during the fighting, was forced to settle in the West Bank.

After further allegations of bribery, involvement in opaque actions and criticism of Mahmud Abbas, he was expelled from the party in June 2011. In July, his house was searched by the Palestinian police and his "security guards" stationed there arrested for illegally possessing weapons. In August 2011 he was even accused of being the author of the poisoning of Yasser Arafat . He is said to have administered the poison to Arafat, disguised as medicine, and ordered the destruction of all evidence.

Dahlan then went into exile in the United Arab Emirates . In 2014 Abbas accused him of being involved in up to six rival murders. In March 2014, Dahlan was sentenced in absentia to a two-year prison term for defamation and defamation by a Palestinian court.

Web links

• Political power struggle in Palestine The many faces of Mohammed Dahlan by Neville Teller translated from English by Harald Eckhoff qantara September 7, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian Black: Palestine papers: Mohammed Dahlan . From guardian.co.uk, January 25, 2011, accessed November 28, 2012.
2. ^ "Archeology of the Middle East roadmap III" ( Memento of July 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), Daily Times , June 17, 2003.
3. ↑ Fatah: Ex-Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan poisoned Arafat , Ha-Aretz , August 8, 2011.
4. ↑ Abbas accuses political foe of murder, hints at connection to Arafat death , Ha-Aretz on March 13, 2014.
5. ↑ Ex-Fatah leader Dahlan has to be imprisoned for two years ( memento from January 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), www. israelnetz .com , May 22, 2014.