Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar (Abu Youssef)
(? - 1973)
Leader from Gaza;
member of the General Union of Palestinian
Students (GUPS); helped to set up Fatah in the late 1950s; active role in
setting up organisations similar to Fatah
in Saudi
Arabia and Qatar;
school teacher; commander of Al-Assifa, Fatah's
military arm; named to the PLO Executive Committee
in 1968; in early years first military commander
of Fatah; leader and operational head of Black
September Organization (operated 1970-74);
killed by an Israeli raid in Beirut on April
10, 1973.
Sources: PASSIA |