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Khalil El-Wazir
(Abu Jihad)
(1935- 1988)
Born on October 10, 1935; expelled in 1948 from Ramleh
and fled to Gaza; became fedai
in 1954; studied in Cairo in the 1950s; co-founder (with Arafat)
of the first Fatah-cell
in 1957; Fatah founding member in 1958/59; PLO/Fatah
military chief since the 1960s; issued in Lebanon
the clandestine Fatah magazine Filastinuna (January 1959); head
of the first office opened by Fatah in Algeria, January 1963; played
an instrumental role in the PLO's relations with a number of Arab states
including Jordan, Syria
and Saudi Arabia; godfather of
and contact person for the resistance in the disputed territories);
appointed official deputy of Arafat
on Fatah's 1980 congress; Arafat's second and his closest ally; assassinated
in his house in Tunis by Israelis on April 16, 1988.
Source:
PASSIA
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