HMOUD, ABDUL FATTAH (ABU SALAH) (1932-1968)

Born in Tineh village near Ramleh on 24 Aug. 1932; was forced to flee with his family during the 1948 Nakba and ended up in Gaza; completed his high school studies at Imam Al-Shafi’i School; joined Cairo University in 1952 to study Petrol Engineering; co-founded the Palestine Student League which soon became known as the Palestine Student Association, and served as its Deputy-Pres. (with Yasser Arafat as Pres.); participated in issuing the magazine Filastinuna (Our Palestine) which later became a Fateh organ; graduated from Cairo University in 1958; moved to Saudi Arabia and worked as Petrol Engineer until 1963; went to work in Qatar; co-founded Fateh in 1967 and became one of its first Central Committee members; resigned from his job as Petrol Engineer in Qatar in 1967 and moved to Jordan; was appointed to head Fateh’s regional command; died in a traffic accident on Al-Mafraq Road, northern Jordan, in 1968, while performing Fateh duties; is considered the first martyr among the Fateh Central Committee members; was buried in Amman.

ولد في قرية تينه قضاء الرمله عام 1932؛ هاجر مع عائلته خلال النكبة الفلسطينية عام 1948 ليستقروا في غزة؛ أكمل دراسته الثانوية في مدرسة الامام الشافعي؛ التحق بجامعة القاهرة عام 1952 لدراسة الهندسة؛ أحد مؤسس اتحاد طلبة فلسطين والتي سرعان ما عرفت باسم جمعية الطلاب الفلسطينية، وشغل منصب نائب رئيس الجمعية مع الرئيس ياسر عرفات؛ شارك في إصدار مجلة فلسطيننا؛ خريج جامعة القاهرة عام 1958؛ انتقل إلى المملكة العربية السعودية وعمل كمهندس حتى عام 1963 ذهب إلى قطر؛ أحد الأعضاء المؤسسين لحركة فتح وعضو في أول لجنة مركزية؛ استقال من عمله كمهندس في قطر عام 1967 وانتقل إلى الأردن؛ تم تعيينه ليرأس القيادة الإقليمية لحركة فتح؛ توفي في حادث سير على طريق المفرق، شمال الأردن عام 1968؛ دفن في عمان.