Martyr Kamal Medhat in a Few Lines
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24/03/2009 And it was his last mission for Palestine...
Martyr Kamal Naji ,who was also known as Kamal Medhat, witnessed the signing of an agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United Nations for the relief of Palestinian people in Gaza.
Medhat was assassinated on Monday along with four of his bodyguards in a roadside bomb blast outside the Mieh Mieh refugee camp as he returned from a funeral in the nearby Ain el-Helwe camp.
Medhat, also known as Abu Bilal, was a senior Fatah official and deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon. He was promoted to General six months before his martyrdom. The martyr was only 16 years old when he joined the ranks of Fatah movement and resisted the Israeli enemy in his village al-Majdel, near the Gaza Strip. He was married and a father for two children.
Following the footsteps of many of his countrymen, Kamal Medhat came to Lebanon where he would spend the next 42 years of his life. He had been a close aide to Yasser Arafat, the former Palestinian president and served as his special security service chief.
Moreover, he underwent military training in China, Russia and many Arab countries and drilled with infantry, paratroopers, frogmen contingents.
Kamal Medhat had significant relations with different Lebanese leaderships in the political spectrum. He had similar ties with Palestinian factions and his opinion was respected by Islamic groups, especially in the Ein el-Helwe refugee camp. The martyr played a prominent role in mediations between feuding Palestinian factions in the camp. Mediation in Ain El Helwe was his final mission as tension has been running high recently, according to the PLO’s Press Office in Beirut
The martyr did not hesitate to express his opposition to the Camp David and Oslo agreements, signed with Israel. To him, resistance against the Israeli occupation was the best choice for Palestinians.
Lebanon, World Condemn Medhat's Assassination Readers Number : 162
24/03/2009 For the second consecutive day, condemnations to the assassination of the deputy of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s representative in Lebanon Kamal Medhat dominated the Lebanese and international political scene.
In this context, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday slammed the crime as terrorist. "The secretary-general condemns the terrorist attack that killed Mr. Kamal Medhat, the deputy head of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon, and several of his bodyguards," his press office said in a statement. Ban voiced hope that "the perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice promptly," adding that "such actions must not be allowed to endanger the climate of calm that currently prevails in Lebanon."
Earlier, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killing of the deputy head of the PLO in Lebanon on Monday as an act of terrorism. "President Abbas condemns the terrorist crime that targeted Major General Kamal Medhat," he said in a statement issued by his office. "He dedicated his life to serve his people and his cause," the statement added.
Meanwhile, Lebanese various leaders condemned the assassination and called for punishing the criminals. In this context, President Michel Sleiman, while receiving Arab Interior Ministers who were in Lebanon for a conference in the Baabda Presidential Palace on Monday, said that all Arabs should "unite in the face of terrorism," and suggested the establishment of an Arab observatory to combat it through constant monitoring of activities and financial transactions. Israel had "created the right conditions for terrorism to stain Arabs and Muslims, and to justify its non-acknowledgment of the Palestinian state," Sleiman said.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri urged the mainstream Fatah Movement and all the Palestinian factions to coordinate with the Lebanese army and security forces "to prevent the enemies of both the Lebanese and Palestinian people from achieving their goals."
According to a statement released by the AMAL movement, Berri called the PLO representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki, and offered his condolences for Medhat's martyrdom. It was "obvious that Israel was the perpetrator, because it is the only beneficiary of shaking Lebanon's national security, and the sowing of discord and unrest among Palestinians," the statement emphasized.
Hezbollah Political Council member Hasan Hadraj also called Zaki and offered condolences on behalf of the party's Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and relayed the latter's denouncement of the crime.
Hezbollah had earlier issued a statement in which it vehemently condemned Medhat's assassination, calling to try and punish those who were behind the crime. Hezbollah emphasized that the crime was targeting both the Palestinian and Lebanese nations, noting that the attack bore "the fingerprints of the Zionists and was aimed at sowing discord."
The head of the Future movement MP Saad Hariri, who embarked on an official three-day visit to Great Britain on Monday to meet with several senior officials, called Zaki to offer his condolences for Medhat's death. Hariri denounced the crime and reiterated his solidarity with the "Palestinian people in their constant struggle for the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital."
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