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Zuhair Ibrahim Musa Id'ais al-Manasra (Abu Ibrahim; April 9, 1943 – October 4, 2025) was a Palestinian military officer and economist . He was a member of the Palestinian National Council and a member of the Fatah movement .Its revolutionary council .
His life
Al-Manasra was born in Hebron in 1943 during the British Mandate for Palestine to a Palestinian family from the town of Bani Na'im, where he grew up and studied in its schools. He studied secondary school at Al-Hussein Bin Ali School in Hebron.
He studied Islamic law at Damascus University and obtained a bachelor's degree in 1964.
He moved to Germany to study mechanical engineering, then joined the Fatah movement in 1965, where he did not complete his university studies, as he left in 1967 to join the resistance movement.
He later returned and obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of Frankfurt in 1972.
He was arrested by the Israeli army for his political and military activities and later deported to Jordan. He then joined the staff of the Occupied Territories (Western Sector) apparatus in Lebanon.
In 1978, he became the director of Khalil al-Wazir’s office in Amman, and later in Baghdad, then he joined the staff of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Tunisia.
He became a member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement in 1988 and his membership continued until 2009.
He returned to the Palestinian territories in 1994 as a result of the peace agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
On June 9, 1996, he was appointed Governor of Jenin Governorate .
On July 3, 2002, he was appointed Director of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in the West Bank .
He was later transferred on July 17, 2003, to the Governors' Department in the Presidential Secretariat.
He was appointed Governor of Bethlehem Governorate in 2003.
On November 20, 2005, he was promoted to the rank of Major General and retired.
Personal life
Al-Manasra was married to Mrs. Aida Al-Mashlawi and they had 4 children: Ibrahim, Nadia, Maysaa and Amani.
His death
He passed away on the morning of Saturday, October 4, 2025, while in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The Palestinian National Council mourned his death .
His body was brought to the West Bank on Friday, October 17, 2025 and buried in Bani Na’im .
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