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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Fahd al-Qawasmi (1939-1984) is a Palestinian engineer and politician , born in the city of Hebron . He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo . He was elected mayor of Hebron in the 1976 elections , which he ran as head of the National Bloc that won all the seats. The occupation authorities deported him from the homeland in 1980. He was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the seventeenth session of the National Council held in Amman in 1984.
His life
Fahd Daoud Muhammad Al-Qawasmi was born in the city of Hebron on April 13, 1939. He is married and has four sons and a daughter. He studied primary school in Hebron schools, and secondary school in Cairo. He obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in agricultural engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture at Ain Shams University . He worked as a teacher in UNRWA schools in Jerusalem and Ramallah , then was appointed as an agricultural engineer in the Department of Agriculture in the West Bank - Scientific Research Department until 1976. After being elected mayor of Hebron, he worked to establish economic and development projects to develop the city. Al-Qawasmi and the mayors of the West Bank held a national conference in Hebron to unify the political line and confront the settlements and the occupation's policies in imposing its control and suppression of the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip , and imposing a boycott on the residents of the Kiryat Arba settlement .
His contributions
The martyr Fahd Al Qawasmi has a number of contributions:
Founder of the National Steering Committee against Settlements.
He joined the PLO cadres and participated in its official delegations to several countries around the world, calling for a peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue, the release of prisoners and the return of deportees.
He assumed the chairmanship of the Legal Committee of the Palestinian National Council in its seventeenth session in Amman.
He was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and was appointed Head of the Department of Occupied Homeland Affairs in 1984.
Arrest and deportation
Fahed Al-Qawasmi was arrested from his home with a group of his comrades, Muhammad Melhem, the mayor of Halhul, and Sheikh Rajab Bayoud Al-Tamimi, after the Dabouya operation in Hebron. They were taken to the headquarters of the Israeli military governorship and then transported by military plane to the village of Al-Adaisseh in southern Lebanon on May 2, 1980. From outside Palestine, he waged a legal, diplomatic and media struggle for his return and that of his two comrades. They obtained two resolutions from the Security Council on May 8 and 21, 1980, stipulating their return to Palestine . However, the occupation refused to implement the resolution, so Al-Qawasmi resorted to the Zionist Supreme Court of Justice, and the military court summoned him to appear before it in August 1980. He returned to Palestine, where he was arrested for fifty-nine days. He was deported again by a decision from the Israeli Minister of Defense at the time, Ezer Weizman, to Lebanon on September 26, 1980.
Assassinate him
He was assassinated in front of his home in Amman on December 29, 1984, and was buried in the Umm al-Hiran cemetery in Jordan .
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