Saleh al-Arouri

Saleh al-Arouri

Saleh Muhammad Sulayman al-Arouri (Arabic: صالح محمد سليمان العاروري, romanized: Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad Sulaimān al-ʿĀrūrī; 19 August 1966 – 2 January 2024), also transliterated as Salah al-Arouri or Salih al-Aruri, was a Palestinian politician and senior leader of Hamas who served as deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from October 2017 until his assassination in January 2024. He was a founding commander of its military wing, the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades and also served as the Hamas's military commander of the West Bank, although he lived in Lebanon at the time of his assassination. Al-Arouri was born in 'Arura near Ramallah in the West Bank in 1966. He enrolled at Hebron University to study Islamic Sharia in 1985, during which he was elected head of the Islamic faction at the university, and was recruited to Hamas in 1987 during the First Intifada. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Saleh al-Arouri is the 10,916th most popular politician (down from 6,667th in 2024). (down from 1,082nd in 2019)