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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Daoud Ahmed Maragha, known as “Abu Ahmed Fouad”, was born in the town of Silwan, east of occupied Jerusalem in 1942. He is married and has two sons and three daughters.
In his early youth, he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement and became involved in its political and military activities in Jordan and Palestine. He turned to Marxist thought after the defeat of 1967 and participated with George Habash and others in founding the Popular Front on December 11, 1967. He completed a military course in Egypt and another in Eastern Europe, and visited socialist countries in Asia and Africa as part of delegations for the Popular Front, accompanied by the Front leader Abu Ali Mustafa.
He progressed through organizational and military responsibilities within the Front; he was the head of the Central Sector (Jordan) in the late sixties and early seventies of the last century, and a member of the Front’s military leadership. He participated in the events of September 1970 against the Jordanian regime. After the resistance left Jordan, he moved to Lebanon, and participated in building military bases belonging to the Front in southern Lebanon, and became its military official there. He led the military operations of its forces during the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978, and also witnessed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982.
He left Lebanon for Syria and resided in Damascus. He was chosen as the head of the political department of the Popular Front, and then he was chosen as its deputy secretary-general during the seventh conference held between November 28 and December 3, 2013, succeeding the Front leader Abdul Rahim Mallouh.
He headed the Popular Front delegation to the Palestinian reconciliation talks in more than one Arab capital, including the reconciliation talks in Cairo in November 2017 and February 2021.
Abu Ahmad Fouad appears in various media outlets, especially after he became Deputy Secretary-General of the Front, and in his interviews on satellite channels and radio stations, he comments on issues related to the conflict with the occupation and the internal Palestinian situation, and expresses the position of the Popular Front on them.
He suffered during his struggle; he lived through the Nakba, was arrested by the Jordanian authorities during the events of Black September, and the occupation prevented him from returning to his country since its occupation in 1967.
Maragha died at the age of 83 on Friday, January 16, 2025 in Syria.
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