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Person · Writer; spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
1936–1972
Born in Acre on 9 April 1936. In 1948 his family were forced to leave Jaffa and took refuge in Lebanon. He joined his sister in Kuwait in 1956 and moved to Beirut in 1960. He wrote short stories, novels and plays, among them Men in the Sun (1963), All That’s Left to You (1966), Umm Sa’d and Returning to Haifa (both 1969). He took part in founding the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in December 1967, became its spokesman and, in 1969, the editor of its magazine al-Hadaf. He was killed in Beirut on 8 July 1972 and is buried there.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
اغتيال غسان كنفاني
On 8 July 1972 the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car. His seventeen-year-old niece, Lamis, was killed with him. The Institute for Palestine Studies’ biography states that the Israeli Mossad had placed the charge.
Killed, with his niece Lamis
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonGhassan Kanafani was born in PlaceAcre
Role: Born here: 9 April 1936, Acre
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 9 April 1936, Acre
Evidence version:palquest-kanafani-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonGhassan Kanafani participated in EventGhassan Kanafani is assassinated
Role: Killed, with his niece Lamis
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The paragraph on his assassination in Beirut on 8 July 1972
Evidence version:palquest-kanafani-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.