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Co-founder of the Palestinian Fatah movement and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, died in the Jordanian capital, Amman, at the age of 93, his family announced yesterday.
The family said his passing came after he suffered an illness.
Al-Qaddoumi, also known as Abu Al-Lutuf, was most notably known for opposing the Oslo Accords concluded between the PLO and Israel in 1993.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas mourned Al-Qaddoumi’s death, saying he was “a faithful man who gave a lot to serve Palestine, its cause, and its people.”
Fatah said with his passing, the movement has lost “a great national figure, and a fighter who spent his life defending our people, their national cause, and their legitimate rights to return, self-determination, freedom and independence.”
Abu Al-Lutuf was born in Palestine in 1931 and obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics from the American University in Cairo in 1958.
During his studies in Egypt, he met Yasser Arafat, Salah Khalaf and Khalil Al-Wazir, with whom he co-founded Fatah in the late 1950s. Later, they established the Palestinian National Liberation Movement.
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