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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Born in Jerusalem in 1951; from the East Jerusalem village of Umm Tuba; joined Fateh in the early 1970s; was imprisoned for his political activism; while in jail, became religious and joined the Muslim Brotherhood; later became member of Hamas; was detained in Israel on several occasions, spending, on and off, nearly 25 years in Israeli prisons; was released in 2005 after serving seven years in prison; ran on the second spot on the Change and Reform (Hamas) list in the 2006 PLC elections and was elected PLC member in Jan. 2006; was arrested (along with other PA ministers and PLC members) in an Israeli military sweep against Hamas on 29 June 2006; refused to resign from the PLC as demanded by Israel and had his Jerusalem residency permit and Israeli ID card subsequently revoked by Interior Minister Roni Bar-On on 30 June 2006; is still detained as of July 2006.
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