Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat

male, deceased (2004)
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Ahmed Yassin

Ahmed Yassin

male, deceased (2004)
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin was the co-founder (with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi) and the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian Islamist...
Marwan Barghouti

Marwan Barghouti

male, 51 years old
Marwan Bin Khatib Barghouti is a Palestinian leader from the West Bank and a leader of the Fatah movement. He is considered to be the leader of...
Jibril Rajoub

Jibril Rajoub

male, 56 years old
Jibril Rajoub served as the National Security Advisor during the Arafat administration. He is a member of Fatah.
Abu Samhadana

Abu Samhadana

male, deceased (2006)
Jamal Abu Samhadana, from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees (which have been held responsible for...
Abu Nidal

Abu Nidal

male, deceased (2002)
Abu Nidal (May 1937 Jaffa, British mandate - August 16, 2002 Bagdad, Iraq by assasination), born Sabri Khalil al-Banna, (Arabic: صبري خليل البنا) w...
George Habash

George Habash

male, 83 years old
George Habash, to a family of Christian Palestinian merchants. Sometimes he is known by his nom de guerre "Al-Hakim", الحكيم, meaning "the goveno...
Khaled Mashal

Khaled Mashal

male, 53 years old
Khaled Mashal, also known as Khaled Mashaal or Khalid Mish'al (b. 1956) is a leader of Hamas. He has been described alternately as the "political...
Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam

Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam

male, deceased (1935)
Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (1882- November 20, 1935) was an influential Islamist preacher in the British Mandate of Palestine. He founded and led...