Talal Abu Zarifa
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Talal Abu Zarifa | |
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طلال أبو ظريفة | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 May 1960 |
| Died | 13 May 2024 |
| Political party | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Education | University of Algiers |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Palestinian Joint Operations Room |
Talal Abu Zarifa (Arabic: طلال أبو ظريفة; 13 May 1960 – 13 May 2024) was a Palestinian communist militant and a politician.
Biography
[edit]Abu Zarifa was born in the city of Abasan al-Kabira in Khan Yunis Governorate, in the southeast of the Gaza Strip in 1960, at which time Egypt held sway over the territory.[1]
He belonged to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine when he was a student at the University of Algiers in 1977, and was a member of the General Union of Palestinian Students conference in 1979. Later, in 1983, he obtained a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Algiers, College of Science. He worked in the Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture, Khan Yunis Governorate, and during the Second Palestinian Intifada and the invasion of Abasan al-Kabira in 2003, the IDF blew his house up.[2] Abu Zarifa said about the formation of the Palestinian Joint Operations Room in 2018:[3]
"The resistance’s honourable response in the Joint Operations Room is consolidating the meanings of national unity."
Death
[edit]Talal Abu Zarifa was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, on 13 May 2024 during the Israel–Hamas war. Some sources claim that he was targeted for assassination.[4] Palestinian media reported that he was killed by an airstrike on his house. Israeli military whistleblowers told Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham that the IDF had been systematically killing members of Hamas and their suspected associates by bombing their family homes in the Gaza Strip.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "«الديمقراطية» تودع شهيدها طلال أبو ظريفة القائد الوطني وعضو مكتبها السياسي في قطاع غزة" ["Democracy" bids farewell to its martyr Talal Abu Dharifa, the national leader and member of its political bureau in the Gaza Strip]. wattan.net. WATTAN. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ "الاحتلال يغتال القيادي بالجبهة الديمقراطية طلال أبو ظريفة.. ما أبرز مهامه؟". felesteen.news. Palestine Online. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ Archived 9 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "استشهاد القيادي بالجبهة الديمقراطية طلال أبو ظريفة بغارة اسرائيلية جنوب غزة" [Democratic Front leader Talal Abu Dharifa martyred in Israeli raid in southern Gaza]. wafa.ps. WAFA. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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