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Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by Hamdi Quran, a member of the PFLP, thus becoming the highest-ranking Israeli to be killed by a Palestinian.
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Rehavam Ze'evi
Israeli politician (1926–2001)
Rehavam Ze'evi was an Israeli general and politician who founded the far-right nationalist Moledet party. He mainly advocated for complete cleansing of the Palestinian population through population transfer.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi
2001 murder in Jerusalem
Israel's tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi was assassinated shortly before 7 am (GMT+2) on Wednesday, 17 October 2001 at the former Hyatt Regency Hotel in Jerusalem by a squad of Palestinians acting on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine militant…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hamdi Quran
Palestinian assassin
Hamdi Quran is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He was one of a four-man PFLP team who, on 17 October 2001 assassinated Rehavam Ze'evi, the founder of the right-wing Moledet party, who mainly advocated for "population transfer".Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the largest being Fatah.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)