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Mahmoud al-Zahar
Mahmoud al-Zahar is a Palestinian politician and physician. He is a co-founder of Hamas and a member of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. Al-Zahar has served as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 18 February 2006 and served as foreign affairs minister in the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority Government of March 2006 that was sworn in on 29 March 2006 and lasted until 1…
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science · Palestinian politician (born 1945) · politician · physician · also Mahmoud al-Zahar, al-Zahar
Born 6 May 1945 · Q708854
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Al-Zahar revealed to the press that Yasser Arafat had instructed Hamas to launch militant attacks—including suicide bombings—against Israel in 2000, due to peace talks not going anywhere
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2006· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (2006).
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1988· 1 entry
And eventually exiled to Lebanon along with a large number of other Islamist activists in 1992
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1971· 1 entry
Graduated from the Cairo University Faculty of Medicine and five years later he got his master's degree in General Surgery from Ain Shams University, Cairo
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1945· 2 entries
Born 1945-05-06.
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To a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother
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