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Mustafa Youssef Al-Kayed is a jabara, nicknamed Abu Youssef Al-Kayed. He was born in 1926 in the city of Jaffa. He has five brothers and five brothers from his mother; His father was one of the great landowners in Qalqilya, and the Triangle lived his childhood in the city of Jaffa until 1948, after which he left with his family, returning to his city of Qalqilya.
countering aggression
In 1956 he was in Qalqilya when Sa'id al-Saba', Mahmoud al-Ashuh and the Jordanian armed forces confronted the aggression carried out by the Israeli army, headed by Ariel Sharon.
The founding of the Fatah movement
In 1963 he traveled to Kuwait and was with the first group that initiated the founding of the Fatah movement. In 1965 he carried out with Abu Ali Iyad the first operations that were launched inside the Green Line from Qalqilya. Accordingly, Israel destroyed the water wells in the city of Qalqilya in 1969 and before the Cairo Agreement 1969 began with the transfer of weapons to southern Lebanon, and the kinship relationship played between him and Abu Ali Iyad, who was supervising the Asif forces and residing in Damascus, and Saeed Al-Sabaa, the supervisor of the Popular Organization Department and residing in northern Lebanon, and the three were from one city, in addition to the existence of a kinship relationship in organizing the guerrilla action and creating the conditions for access to The Cairo Agreement Through the introduction of weapons and the mobilization of Lebanese and Palestinian youth in the camps, Abu Youssef played a role in that period in supporting the national movement represented by Maarouf Saad, the Lebanese national leader.
Establishment of military bases
After the events of September 1970, he officially moved to Lebanon and established the first military base in the Sarafand region. He also established another base in the Jal al-Bahr region near the city of Tyre, along with a base in the Arqoub region, adjacent to the Lebanese-Palestinian borders, and a base in the Bekaa region. These bases played the main role in many operations. On November 15, 1970, Israel carried out a naval landing operation in which a large number of Israeli soldiers were killed. Three guerrillas were martyred from Abu Yousef Al-Kayed and wounded in the left shoulder. His wife, Afifa, also played a role in this battle when she was fighting alongside her husband after he was wounded in this battle.
The clash with Yasser Arafat
After the martyrdom of Abu Ali Iyad, the group of guerrillas, especially those who left Jordan and the Golan after the battles of Jerash and Ajloun, began to gather in the military bases of Abu Youssef Al-Kayed. Al-Kayed and his affiliated forces, which were under the name (302) under the command of Atallah Atallah (Abu Al-Zaim), who was leading the Qastal forces. Abu Youssef rejected the decision and this matter was considered a rebellion. Then Yasser Arafat went to the town of Baka at the foot of Mount Sheikh in order to follow up on ending Abu Youssef’s rebellion Al-Kayed and those with him were with him Khalil al-Wazir, Nimr Salih and Muhammad Ghoneim Abu Maher, then Ahmed Ibrahim Afana Abu al-Mu’tasim and Atallah Atallah (Abu al-Za’em) joined them, and Yasser Arafat summoned Saeed Musa (Abu Musa). The dialogue with Abu Youssef al-Kayed was via wireless on 10-10- 1972 On 10/11/1972, Yasser Arafat sent his driver and Muhammad al-Kamel, the deputy of Abu Yusef al-Kayed, who entered the mediation line to the Hajj home, Aqab al-Nasr, the father of the martyr Abu Ali Iyad, asking him to intervene with Abu Yusef al-Kayed, who arrested Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) and Farouk al-Qaddoumi ( Abu Allah Kindly) Yasser Arafat was aware that Hajj is the punishment of victory, the father of Abu Ali Iyad is the key to the solution, given the kinship relationship that binds Abu Youssef Al-Kayed with the Hajj. In another car, along with his son Medhat Al-Nasr, Hajj Nasr arrived at the Bekaa base where Abu Youssef is, until he was surprised by the presence of Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad and Farouk Al-Qaddoumi Abu Al-Lutf handcuffed on the ground and tied their hands with ropes. Abu Youssef was agitated and cursed them, especially after nine martyrs had fallen Among his members who were with him at the base as a result of the concentrated bombing by the forces affiliated with Said Musa Abu Musa. At this time, the Hajj was the punishment for victory. He met with Yasser Arafat when he spoke with his nephew Saeed Al-Saba’, asking him to communicate with the Algerian ambassador to Lebanon, Muhammad Yazid, who has a relationship with Saeed. The Seven Days The Seven was not representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the Algerian capital in mid-1965. The idea of Hajj was the punishment of victory for Algeria to intervene through its ambassador in order to present a solution aimed at hosting Algeria, Abu Youssef Al-Kayed and his forces after him. With these contacts, the pilgrimage to punishment of victory arrived, accompanied by the Algerian ambassador, Muhammad Yazid, to the base where Abu Youssef Al-Kayed is located, who said to the pilgrimage Punishment for victory (that Yasser Arafat knew where to catch me, Hajj). Minister Abu Jihad with a pledge to leave with his forces to Algeria, in addition to adopting the nine martyrs who fell in the battle as martyrs of the Palestinian revolution.
his last word
Abu Youssef left the next day through Beirut airport to Algeria and on the ladder of the plane a journalist came from him to take a talk from him and said to him (for history, I say that Yasser Arafat has the only goal is to eliminate the Palestinian revolution and write off the Palestinian cause), then he left for Algeria and from there he moved to Bulgaria for treatment and then He returned to Damascus and resided there in 1975 and died in Jordan in 2000
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