former Palestinian spy for Israel now living in the United States and author
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Mosab Hassan Yousef (Arabic: مصعب حسن يوسف; nicknamed "The Green Prince"; born 5 May 1978) is a Palestinian who worked undercover for Israel's internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007 ...
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Ahed Tamimi (Arabic: عهد التميمي, ‘Ahad at-Tamīmī, also romanized Ahd; born 31 January 2001) is a Palestinian activist from the village of Nabi Salih in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. She is best ...
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Adly Yaish (Arabic: عدلي يعيش, Oɑdlí Iɑoíś) is the mayor of the Nablus Municipality (Dec. 2005–present) in the central highlands of the West Bank under the Palestinian National Authority. His family ...
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Raji Sourani (Arabic: راجي الصوراني, born 31 December 1953 in the Gaza Strip) is a human rights lawyer in the Gaza Strip. He is married and is the father of two children, and lives in the Gaza Strip ...
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Saleh al-Arouri (Arabic: صالح العاروري, also transliterated as Salah al-Arouri or Salih al-Aruri; 19 August 1966 – 2 January 2024) was a senior leader of Hamas and a founding commander of its military ...
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Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (Arabic: يحيى إبراهيم حسن السنوار, Yaḥyá Ibrāhīm Ḥasan al-Sinwār; 29 October 1962 – 16 October 2024) was a Palestinian militant and politician who served as chairman of the ...
Palestinian Israeli poet, photographer and activist
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Dareen Tatour (born 16 April 1982 in Reineh) is a Palestinian poet, photographer, and social media activist from Reineh, Israel, who writes in Arabic, her mother tongue. Following the publication of a ...
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Iyad Burnat (born September 1973) leads Bil'in's non-violent struggle in the West Bank. He is the head of the Bil'in Popular Committee against the Wall, which has led weekly demonstrations since 2005 ...
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Salah Hamouri (Arabic: صلاح حموري), born on 25 April 1985 to a French mother and a Palestinian father, is a French sociology student at Bethlehem University. He is known for his 2005 indictment for p ...
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Khalida Jarrar, born 1963, is a Palestinian feminist, human rights activist and senior lawyer for the PLO. She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP) and the Palestinian ...
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Abdul Aziz Duwaik ( ABH-dehl ah-ZEEZ doo-WAYK Arabic: عزيز دويك ʿAzīz Dowēk) (born January 12, 1948) has been the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) since his election to ...
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Fathi Shaqaqi (Arabic: فتحي الشقاقي; 4 January 1951 – 26 October 1995) was the co-founder and Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine.
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Sari Nusseibeh (Arabic: سري نسيبة) (born in 1949) is a Palestinian Professor of Philosophy and former President of the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Until December 2002 he was the representative ...
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Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (also Erifat or Erakat or Arekat; Arabic: صائب عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt or ʻRēqāt; born 28 April 1955) is a Palestinian politician and diplomat who is the Secretary General ...
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Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti (Arabic: مروان حسيب ابراهيم البرغوثي; born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. He is regarded as a leader ...
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Karim Youssef Fadl Younis (born December 24, 1956) is a former Palestinian prisoner and an Arab citizen of Israel, specifically from the village of 'Ara. The Israeli army captured him while he was in school ...
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Aisha Odeh (Arabic: عائشة عودة, ʻĀʼishah ʻAwdah; born 1944) is a Palestinian writer. As a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), she participated in a 1969 supermarket bombing ...
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Rasmea Yousef Odeh in Arabic رسمية يوسف عودة (born 1947/1948; also known as Rasmea Yousef, Rasmieh Steve, and Rasmieh Joseph Steve) is a Palestinian Jordanian and former American citizen who was a member ...
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Mahmoud Sarsak (born 1987) is a Palestinian football player who was a member of the Palestine national football team. In 2012, Sarsak spent three months on hunger strike while imprisoned in Israel without ...