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Rashad Abdel Hafez

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1946
  • Age: 77
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Rashad Muhammad Mahmoud Abdel Hafez (1946 - April 24, 1976) was a Palestinian politician, writer, and journalist. He was born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm. He was a member of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Palestine Al-Thawra newspaper, which was the official central newspaper of the Palestine Liberation Organization until he was assassinated by Israel.

his biography
Rashad Muhammad Mahmoud Abd al-Hafez was born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm in 1946. He received his primary, preparatory, and secondary education in the schools of the city of Tulkarm, and finished high school in the historical Fadhiliya School in the city. He joined the Faculty of Science at the University of Mosul, Iraq, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Science. There he joined the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) and held several positions and responsibilities in it. He also held the position of a member of the Movement's Region Committee in Iraq.

Rashad Abdel Hafez directly supervised the building of the revolutionary organization of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) in the sixties of the twentieth century, to be one of the most prominent in charge of that, then the Palestinian leadership assigned him to supervise the unified Palestinian media apparatus, accompanied by Majed Abu Sharar in Beirut, and Abdel Hafez also took over Editor-in-Chief of Palestine Al-Thawra newspaper, which is the official central newspaper of the Palestine Liberation Organization and issued from the Lebanese capital, Beirut.


Rashad Abdel Hafez is married to a Palestinian woman in Iraq, where he got married before leaving Iraq, and his wife was unable to join him in Beirut, and he has an only son who was in his wife's womb when he was assassinated.

They said about him
The Palestinian writer and journalist Hassan Al-Batal says: "Our colleague Rashad Abdel Hafez was one of the smartest people I knew.. The image of the revolutionary intellectual applies to the advocacy poet and the poet Dahbour, and also to Rashad Abdel Hafez, who fell and did not see his first and last child." Hassan Al-Batal adds, saying Rashad was the most intelligent of the editors, with a mathematical mind, but he was also proficient in the Arabic language. He is lean, tall, of great morals, and well-versed in journalistic writing, although he did not study journalism. Very educated and promising editor.
Palestinian politician and writer Muhammad Shtayyeh says in his book Encyclopedia of Palestinian Terms and Concepts: “Palestine accompanied the revolution with the war in Lebanon, and the magazine presented a number of martyrs in defense of the Palestinian national project, including Rashad Abdel Hafez.”

 

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