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Person · Women’s leader in Gaza; member of the first Palestine National Council
1923–2009
Born in Gaza on 15 April 1923, the daughter of a merchant on the city’s municipal council, she demonstrated as a student against the Balfour Declaration and, in Cairo in 1947, against the UN partition resolution. She was on the first Palestinian delegation to the United Nations, with Haydar Abd al-Shafi and Ibrahim Abu Sitta, and a member of the first Palestine National Council in Jerusalem in May 1964, at which the PLO was founded; in 1965 she led Gaza’s delegation to the founding of the General Union of Palestinian Women. She died in Gaza on 13 May 2009.
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The first Palestine National Congress met in Jerusalem on 28 May 1964, with nearly four hundred appointed delegates. On 2 June it announced the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization and approved its National Charter and Basic Law; Ahmad al-Shuqairi was elected its president.
A member of the first Palestine National Council
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonYusra al-Barbari was born in PlaceGaza City
Role: Born here: 15 April 1923, 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 15 April 1923, Gaza City
Evidence version:palquest-yusra-al-barbari-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonYusra al-Barbari participated in EventThe PLO is founded
Role: A member of the first Palestine National Council
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…was chosen as a member of the First Palestine National Council, held in Jerusalem in May 1964, at which the Palestine Liberation Organization was established.”
Evidence version:palquest-yusra-al-barbari-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.