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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Fakhri Ali Mahmoud Al-Omari was born in the Al-Ajami neighborhood of occupied Jaffa in 1936. He is married and has three children. He completed his primary and secondary education in schools in the Gaza Strip. He worked in Saudi Arabia in 1959.
He joined the Fatah movement through the leader Salah Khalaf Abu Iyad, and began recruiting members for it on Saudi soil. He devoted himself to organizational work in early 1967, and worked as an assistant to Abu Iyad. He participated in the first security course for the Fatah movement for two months in mid-1968, which was held at the Institute of Strategic Research affiliated with Egyptian intelligence. It included ten people who later contributed to the establishment of the security services affiliated with the Fatah movement. He participated in the establishment of the monitoring apparatus of the Fatah movement, which was led at the time by Salah Khalaf Abu Iyad, and was appointed its head in the city of Irbid in northern Jordan. He became the second man in the unified security apparatus of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and planned operations to pursue Mossad networks around the world. He was among the leaders of the Black September Organization, which was established after the PLO left Jordan, and carried out a number of retaliatory operations in the Arab world and in Europe. He is considered the originator of the famous Munich operation, which was carried out on the fifth and sixth of September 1972. He planned it in cooperation with Salah Khalaf Abu Iyad and Muhammad Daoud Abu Daoud, and he was the direct supervisor of the group that carried it out and carried the code name “Talal”.
Al-Omari suffered during his struggle; he lived through the Nakba, and was displaced with his family to Port Said in Egypt, then moved to the Gaza Strip, and lived in the Al-Bureij refugee camp for Palestinians. He was arrested in Morocco while supervising one of the security missions, and was subjected to the first attempt on his life by the occupation intelligence in Lebanon via a car bomb in 1978. Then he was subjected to another attempt in Yugoslavia in 1979, as a result of which he lost the ability to hear in his right ear, until he was assassinated by Hamza Abu Zaid, one of the companions of Hayel Abdel Hamid Abu Al-Houl, in Tunisia on the evening of January 14, 1991. The leaders Salah Khalaf Abu Iyad and Hayel Abdel Hamid Abu Al-Houl were assassinated with him. The assassin was a secret element of the Fatah Revolutionary Council movement, which split from the Fatah movement and was led by Sabri Al-Banna Abu Nidal.
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