Sakher Habash

Sakher Habash (Arabic: صخر حبش‎, 10 November 1939 – 1 November 2009) was a Palestinian leader of the Fatah movement.

Biography

Habash was born in Bayt Dajan, near Jaffa, in 1939. He became a refugee in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, ending up first in Ramallah, then in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. He studied geology and water resources at Ain Shams University in Cairo and later in the University of Arizona.

He became a Palestinian nationalist in the early 1960s and joined Fatah in 1962, when he became responsible for recruitment. He was appointed Fateh regional command in Lebanon in October 1972. He was a member of the Fateh Central Committee from August 1989 to August 2009, where he served as Fateh's general deputy of intellectual affairs presented by Yassir Arafat. He was a writer,a poet, and an artist.

Death

He died nine days before his 70th birthday and was survived by his wife and four children.

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