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Kamal Adwan
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Kamal Adwan
كمال عدوان1935–1973
Born on 9 May 1935 in Barbara, near Majdal Asqalan, he led a student demonstration against the UN partition plan in November 1947; after the Nakba his family was forced to Gaza City. He studied petroleum engineering at Cairo University and in 1958 helped establish the Movement for Palestinian National Liberation, Fatah, among whose leaders he argued for armed struggle. He was assassinated in Beirut’s Verdun quarter on the night of 9–10 April 1973, with Kamal Nasser and Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, by an Israeli commando unit.
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PersonKamal Adwan was born in PlaceBarbara
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