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Person · Physician in Gaza; founder of its Red Crescent Society; head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid peace conference, 1991
1919–2007
Born in Gaza City on 10 June 1919, he studied medicine at the American University of Beirut and opened his own clinic in Gaza. He took part in the first Palestine National Council in Jerusalem in May 1964, when the PLO was created, and after Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967 he founded, with others, its Red Crescent Society, which he headed until 2005. He headed the Palestinian delegation to the international peace conference in Madrid in late October 1991, where he called for a peace based on the implementation of UN resolutions and an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital beside Israel. He led the negotiations with Israel in Washington for several months, and resigned the leadership of the delegation in April 1993 in protest at Israel’s refusal to stop building settlements. He died in Gaza City on 25 September 2007.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
Haidar Abdel-Shafi
مؤتمر مدريد للسلام
On 30 October 1991 a peace conference opened in Madrid under American and Soviet sponsorship. Palestinians took part within a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, their side headed by Haydar Abd al-Shafi; talks followed on a Palestinian-Israeli and a Jordanian-Israeli track.
Headed the Palestinian delegation and gave its speech
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonHaydar Abd al-Shafi was born in PlaceGaza City
Role: Born here: 10 June 1919, Gaza City
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 10 June 1919, Gaza City
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-shafi-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonHaydar Abd al-Shafi participated in EventThe Madrid peace conference
Role: Headed the Palestinian delegation and gave its speech
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The paragraph on the Madrid conference of late October 1991 and the negotiations in Washington
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-shafi-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.