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Ahmed Mahmoud Suleiman Hillis (Abu Maher) was born in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City in 1951. He is married and has children. He completed his primary and secondary education in Gaza schools, obtained his high school diploma, and earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1976. He worked as the director of the workers' committees at the Institute of Science and Technology in Khan Yunis.
Helles joined the Fatah movement in the early seventies of the twentieth century, and became involved in its national activities. He was active in the Fatah Youth Movement, the student arm of Fatah, and was among the Fatah cadres in the First Palestinian Intifada. He assumed a number of organizational tasks within the movement, as he was chosen as the secretary of the movement in the Gaza Strip in 1994, and remained in this position until it was abolished by President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007. He was also a member of the Supreme Council for Refugee Camps in 1997, a member of the Mobilization and Organization Office of the Fatah movement, and became a member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement, a member of the Central Committee of the movement in 2016, and Commissioner for Mobilization and Organization in the Gaza Strip.
Helles suffered throughout his life. He was arrested by the occupation forces in the late seventies of the twentieth century on charges of membership in a military group affiliated with Fatah, which included Ahmed al-Jabari, a commander in the Qassam Brigades. He was arrested again by the occupation forces in August 2008, along with thirteen of his companions, while they were trying to travel to the West Bank after the security services stormed the homes of the Helles family in an attempt to arrest wanted individuals. Clashes occurred at that time between them and armed members of the family. His son, Muhammad, was killed during the occupation forces’ invasion of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza City on February 11, 2004. He was subjected to an assassination attempt in March 2019, which the Palestinian security services attributed to his rivals.
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