Muhammad Ghoneim

Muhammad Ghoneim
Born	Muhammad Ratib Ghoneim 1929 (age 94–95) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Years active	1950s–2010s
Political party	Fatah

Muhammad Ghoneim, also known as Abu Maher (born 1937), is a Palestinian politician and a leading member of the Fatah movement.

Biography

Ghoneim was born in 1937 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. Joined the Fatah movement in the late 1950s he became one of the second wave members of the group. At the end of the 1950s and at the beginning of the 1960s, he established the first resistance cells in the West Bank and Jordan which would later become core elements of the Fatah movement. He was one of the participants in the first meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 and became a member of the Palestinian National Council.

Ghoneim was appointed head of the mobilization and organization affairs of the PLO in 1977. He also served as the deputy commander-in-chief for its administrative affairs. He was tasked to head the Fatah forces in Syria after the departure of the Palestinian groups from Jordan following the Black September incident in 1970. Then he settled in Beirut with other Palestinian leaders and stayed there until 1983. Next he and others moved to Tunisia.

Following the Oslo accords in 1993 Ghoneim did not return to Ramallah and remained in Tunisia. He participated in the Fatah's sixth general conference held in Bethlehem in August 2009 and was elected as a member of its Central Committee.