From Haifa. A prominent figure in the press and literature. He launched "az-Zahra" Magazine then turned it to a newspaper called az-Zuhur". He was killed in an accident in Haifa.

Born in Jerusalem; received his education at Al-Azhar University in 1931; served as a teacher and imam at Al-Aqsa Mosque; In 1936 he participated in the "National Committee's Conference" representing Jerusalem; was arrested along with important Jerusalemite figures; headed the Muslim Brotherhood's General Conference in Jerusalem in 1946; was one of the founders of the Arab Chamber of Commerce, where he was appointed as Deputy, for Fakhri Ahmed Helmi Pasha (1936-1948); headed the Chamber of Commerce after it was reconstituted in 1953; died in Jerusalem in 1954.

Born in Jerusalem in 1924; son of Sheikh Abdul Bari Barakat; received his B.A degree in Commerce and Economics; chaired the light industry import department (1944-1948); appointed head of the Industrial Chamber of Commerce in the West Bank; became secretary and member of the executive office for the Chamber of Commerce Union in Amman, Jordan; became member of the First Palestinian National Council representing Jerusalem; member in the Association of Injured Freedom Fighters; participated in founding the Islamic Council in the West Bank after the 1967 war; elected member in the Jerusalem Municipality Council in 1964 for two consecutive terms and is still an acting member.

Born in Beni Suheila, Khan Yunis, in 1956; graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1979; worked as a teacher in Algeria, then in Palestine; was arrested three times by Israeli authorities and deported to Lebanon in 1989 under allegations of advocating for the Islamic Al-Jihad group; founded Shahid Filastin (Palestine’s Martyr) and other organizations for Palestinians in Lebanon; returned to Palestine after the 1998 PNC meeting; became Gen. Dir. in the Min. of Youth and Sports; got involved in cultural and religious activities; resigned to nominate himself for the 2005 PA elections as independent candidate for the post of PA president following the death of Yasser Arafat.

Born in Ramallah; journalist and newspaper editor; BA Economics from the American University in Beirut, 1956; member of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in 1957; arrested by the Jordanians and detained for 8 years at Al-Jaffar prison; returned to the West Bank in 1974 via family reunification; chief editor of Al-Fajr newspaper, 1975-77; founder and head of the Palestinian Communist Party (now: Palestine People's Party) in the OPT on February 10, 1982; put under house arrest by the Israelis in the early 1980s; chief editor of At-Taliah weekly newspaper in Jerusalem.

Born on 6 June 1959 in Kobar, near Ramallah; joined Fateh at the age of 15; among the founders of the Shabiba (Fateh Youth) in the West Bank in the mid-1970s; from 1978, spent 4½ years in Israeli prisons after being charged with membership in then “banned” Fateh; studied at Birzeit University from 1983; head of shabiba while president of the student council at Birzeit University in the early 1980s; graduated (BA) in history and political science in 1994; was arrested in Sept. 1985, placed under admin. detention for six months and deported by Israel in May 1987 to Jordan; played a role in organizing various political aspects of the first Intifada from his Amman exile; became elected member of the Fateh Revolutionary Council in Aug. 1989; acted as liaison officer between the outside PLO and inside Fateh; independent member of the PLO Central Council; allowed to return to the West Bank in April 1994; initial supporter of the Oslo process; became Sec.-Gen. of the Fateh Higher Committee in the West Bank; won a Ramallah seat as an independent in the Jan. 1996 elections; continued his studies at Birzeit, receiving an MA in international relations in 1998; critical of centralization of power under Arafat; submitted motion of no-confidence in the executive in the PLC in May 1997 budgetary misuse affair; became increasingly critical of Oslo, especially in face of Israel’s ongoing settlement policy; led massive demonstrations refocusing national attention on the basic objective of ending the occupation; has become the major local leader in the second Intifada (since Sept. 2000), organizing resistance in the belief that peace cannot be achieved with occupation; survived an Israeli assassination attempt in Aug. 2001; was arrested by the Israeli army in Ramallah on 15 April 2002 and is illegally detained since then; on 6 June 2004 sentenced to five successive life imprisonments plus 40 years for being involved with Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades; following the passing away of Pres. Yasser Arafat, decided to run as a candidate in the PA elections, challenging an earlier Fateh agreement to nominate former PM Mahmoud Abbas as Fateh representative (a move that was denounced by the Fateh Central Committee but welcomed among certain Fateh youth members), but withdrew his candidacy on 12 Dec. 2004.

Born in 1954 in Jerusalem; went in 1971 to study medicine at Moscow University, graduating in 1978 (MD); returned to Jerusalem and worked as a physician at Al-Maqassed Hospital; member of the Palestinian Communist Party (later Palestinian People’s Party (PPP); co-founder (1979) and voluntary chairman of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) since 1983; degree in philosophy and MSc in Business administration and management from Stanford University, US; Dir. of the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) in Ramallah since 1990; member of the Steering Committee for the delegation to the multilateral peace negotiations in the early 1990s; one of the delegates involved in the Madrid Peace negotiations initiated in 1991; among the founders of the GIPP (Grassroots International Protection for the Palestinian People); run unsuccessfully in the 1996 elections in Ramallah; PPP leader and its representative in the PNC; spokesperson for various bodies, incl. the Palestinian National Initiative (Mubadara), which he co-launched together with Ibrahim Daqqaq, Haydar Abdul Shafi and late Edward Said in 2002 and whose Sec.-Gen. he is; arrested in 2002 and prevented entry to Jerusalem by Israeli authorities; campaigned against the separation wall in the International Court at The Hague; has many articles focusing on civil society and health development in Palestine; high profile in the international scene, particularly in Arab and European news agencies and participated in speaking tours lecturing in different universities; awarded the International Health Organization’s prize in 2002; nominated himself as an independent running candidate in the 2005 PA elections following the passing away of Yasser Arafat.

Born and raised in Aqbat Al-Saraya, Old City of Jerusalem; attended Ma’muniya and Ibrahimiya schools, East Jerusalem; active in student politics after 1967; MA in Broadcast Journalism from Moscow and Leningrad Universities; 1984; wrote for Al-Fajr, Al-Usbu’a Al-Jadid, Al-Mawqif Al-‘Arabi papers and briefly at Al-Quds newspaper; camera and sound technician for the NBC and CBS before joining the Agence France Press (1990-96 and 2002-present) where she worked as reporter; selected for the Nieman Scholarship Award for outstanding Middle East journalist and given a year fellowship at Harvard University; wrote for foreign TV on Jerusalem social and women’s issues; considered nominating herself as a running candidate for the position of President in the 2005 PA elections but soon withdrew.

Said to have been born in Nazareth. He is better known as a short-story writer and a novelist. He started to publish his writings as early as 1898. He established a magazine " an-Nafa'is al-'Asriyyah" (The Modern Treasures). The magazine acquired a good name in the literary circles in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and the Diaspora. He is survived by his son Yusuf Baydas, the Manager of Intra Bank.

Born in 1943 in Jiser Al-Majam'a, Jordan Valley; early education in Shuneh Shamaliyyeh, completed high school at Hassan Al-Sabah School in Irbid, Jordan; joined Fateh in 1964, and its military dept. in 1965; received training at Namkeen Military College in China (July-Dec. 1967); became Fateh's commander of the Central Sector in Jordan from 1968-1969; then brigade commander in Lebanon, 1969-1970 (in the Al-Arqube area known as "Fateh land"), and general in the PLA. Joined on behalf of the PLO a field study mission in 1974 in Vietnam; became the same year Commander of the September Martyrs' Brigade in Sur, Lebanon; in 1979, Commander of the Yarmouk forces; in 1986, Commander of the Al-Karameh forces in Jordan. Elected member of the Fateh Central Committee since Aug. 1989. studied Islamic Economics at Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 1990; returned to Gaza on 8 May 1994 with the establishment of the PA and became head of the Public Security Forces, with the rank of Major-General, based in Gaza; from 1995, responsible for joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols in Gaza; oversaw the IDF withdrawal from Jenin in Nov. 1996; currently head of the Public Security Forces in Gaza.

He practiced law during the Othoman rule, and became an employee of the Arab Government in 1919 and 1920 in Damascus. As a Jerusalemite, he settled down in Palestine and worked for the British Mandate.

He was arrested by the British when they occupied Ramlah, Lod and Jaffa. Kamil was exposed to severe torture in the detention camp in Egypt. The British released him in 1920. He launched "as-Sabah" Newspaper in Jerusalem. He was murdered on his way to Najd - Saudi Arabia in 1923.