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Freih Abu Middein
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Person · Chief of the Hanajira; delegate of Bir al-Sabi‘ to the first Palestinian congress
Freih Abu Middein
فريح أبو مدين1871–1955
Born in Bir al-Sabi‘ (Beersheba) in 1871 into a branch of the Hanajira clan, whose lands reached from north of Bir al-Sabi‘ to the coast of Gaza, he sat from 1910 on the council of the Ottoman subdistrict of Bir al-Sabi‘. After the First World War he became chief of his clan, and in January 1919 attended the first Palestinian National Congress in Jerusalem as the delegate of Bir al-Sabi‘, voting for its resolutions rejecting the Balfour Declaration and Jewish immigration. He died in the Gaza Strip in 1955.
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PersonFreih Abu Middein was born in PlaceBeersheba
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