Sheikh ahmad sirhindi notes

Palestinian political leader, born in Jerusalem. In 1948, at the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Bassam Abu Sharif became a refugee in Jordan. After secondary studies in Amman, he traveled to Lebanon to study chemistry at the American University of Beirut.

When the Arab-Israel War broke out in June 1967, he returned to Jordan, where he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) of George Habash and became associated with Ghassan Kanafani, spokesperson for the PFLP. In October 1970, after the bloody confrontations between the Jordanian Army and Palestinian splinter groups, Abu Sharif returned to Lebanon where, with Kanafani, he became one of the mainstays of the weekly al-Hadaf, a PFLP organ.

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On 8 July 1972 Kanafani was assassinated by the Israelis in a car explosion. On 25 July Abu Sharif escaped an attempt on his life that used a booby-trapped package, but he lost an eye and several fingers. Between 1973 and 1981 he