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Zuhdi Mahmoud Said Amer (born August 21, 1943 in Kafr Qalil – died February 28, 2001 in Gaza ) was a Palestinian politician who served as an advisor to Yasser Arafat and as a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization on the joint Palestinian-Jordanian committee. He served as governor of the North Gaza Governorate between 1996 and 2001, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Al-Azhar University in Gaza .
His life
Zuhdi Mahmoud Said Amer was born in the village of Kafr Qalil in the Nablus district during the British Mandate for Palestine . He received his primary and preparatory education in the schools of Nablus , then his family moved to Rafah . He completed his secondary education at Palestine Secondary School in Gaza City in 1961.
He enrolled at Cairo University and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Economics in 1964, then obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1970 , a Master's degree in Economics in 1975, and a PhD in Economics from the same university.
Zuhdi Amer worked with the Palestinian educational mission in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1972 in the Hadhramaut region , and later worked as an engineer in the Ministry of Industry in Aden . In 1978, he devoted himself to working in the Fatah movement, where he served as head of the economic department of the Sons of Martyrs Foundation, as well as being responsible for the economic department in the Occupied Territories Office.
Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the signing of the joint agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO) and Jordan , he resided in Amman and served as the PLO representative on the Palestinian-Jordanian Committee. In 1985, he was appointed Director-General of the Department of Occupied Territories Affairs within the PLO and Advisor to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat on Occupied Territories Affairs. During the joint negotiations with Israel , in which Egypt and Jordan participated, he headed the Displaced Persons Affairs Unit.
He was the first to hold the position of Governor of the North Gaza Governorate , having been appointed on September 15, 1996, and he continued in the position until his death.
His death
He died on February 28, 2001, from a severe heart attack in Gaza City .
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