Khalil al-Wazir

خليل الوزير / أبو جهاد (Known as "Abu Jihad")

Co-Founder of Fatah, Military Commander of the PLO, Architect of First Intifada

Born 10 October 1935

Ramla, Palestine

Passed Away 16 April 1988 Tunis, Tunisia

Lifespan 52 years old

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"No voice can rise above the voice of the uprising; our strength lies in the stones of our children and the unity of our people."

Archival Overview

Supreme military commander and co-founder of Fatah, celebrated as the strategic mastermind of the 1987 First Intifada.

Biographical Record

Khalil al-Wazir was born in Ramla and was expelled with his family in July 1948 to the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. In the mid-1950s, while studying in Alexandria, he formed a clandestine partnership with Yasser Arafat, together publishing the militant journal Filastinuna and officially founding Fatah in Kuwait in 1959.

Abu Jihad directed the military wing of the Palestinian revolution (Al-Asifah) for three decades. Loved by grassroots fighters for his modesty, strategic discipline, and absolute incorruptibility, he orchestrated the civilian resistance, strikes, and youth coordination of the 1987 First Intifada before an elite Israeli commando raid assassinated him in his home in Tunis in April 1988.

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Final Resting Place

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Yarmouk Martyrs Cemetery
Damascus, Syria

                         GPS: 33.4700, 36.3100                    

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