Draft:Usama Hamdan
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| Name | Usama Hamdan |
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| Birth Place | Gaza |
| Religion | Islam |
Usama Hamdan is one of the political leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine, Hamas, and serves as the movement's representative and spokesperson in Lebanon. He was born in 1965 in Gaza into a refugee family that had been displaced from the east of Majdal Asqalan in 1948. He completed his secondary education in 1982 in Kuwait and obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan, in 1986. His intellectual and cultural works have been published in numerous newspapers, magazines, and periodicals.
Activities
Between 1982 and 1986, he was active in the Islamic student movement at the university. After graduation, he returned to Kuwait, where from 1986 to 1990 he engaged in charitable and relief work for Palestine and worked in the industrial sector. In 1990, during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, he traveled to Iran and joined the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, working at its political office in Tehran. Subsequently, from 1992 to 1993, he served as an assistant to Imad al-Alami, the representative of Hamas.
Hamas Representation
In 1994, he became the official representative of Hamas in Tehran, a position he held until 1998, after which he was appointed as the representative of Hamas in Lebanon; he continues to serve as Hamas's representative in Tehran. In 2004, he participated in the Cairo dialogue among Palestinian factions, serving as the official spokesperson for Hamas during these negotiations. He has attended most recent meetings between Hamas and European officials, was one of the Arab members at the National Conference and the Islamic Conference, and is a board member of the Al-Quds Foundation. He currently heads the political office of Hamas in Lebanon.
Assassination Attempt
Usama Hamdan, a member of the Hamas political bureau, survived an assassination attempt on Saturday, December 26, 2009, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, when security forces discovered a bomb that Mossad had placed inside his car moments before he was to enter it. Explosives experts were called to defuse the device, but it detonated during the defusal operation. The explosion, which resulted in two fatalities and several injuries, occurred in the heart of the security zone of Hezbollah in Beirut, where Hamas offices, including the leadership office of the movement, were located.
External links
References
- See: Entry on Usama Hamdan in Ikhwan Wiki; ikhwanwiki.com.