Ahmed Saadat is a Palestinian politician who currently holds the position of Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is the third Secretary-General of the Front after both the founder, Dr. George Habash, and the assassinated leader, Abu Ali Mustafa.
Ahmed Saadat was born in the city of Al-Bireh on February 23, 1953, to a family that was displaced from its original village, Deir Tarif, in the Ramla district, in 1948, following the Zionist occupation of Palestine. He lived in the city of Al-Bireh and studied at Al-Amari School affiliated with UNRWA, then at Al-Bireh Al-Jadida School, and then at Al-Hashimiyya Secondary School. He also studied mathematics at the Teachers Institute in the city of Ramallah, from which he graduated in 1975.
Saadat joined the Popular Front in 1969. Before that, he joined the student framework. In the Fourth General Conference of the Front in 1981, he was elected a member of its General Central Committee, while he was a member of the West Bank Branch Committee. Since 1994, he has been responsible for the West Bank branch. In the Fifth and Sixth Conferences of the Front, which were held in 1993 and 2000, respectively, he was re-elected to the membership of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau.
After the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Central Committee of the Popular Front met in October 2001, and Saadat was unanimously elected Secretary General by the members of the Central Committee. In 2006, he ran for the Legislative Council elections. At the seventh general conference held in late 2013, he was unanimously re-elected as Secretary-General of the Front, while he is in the occupation prisons, knowing that Saadat is a member of the National and Central Councils of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
He is serving a 30-year prison sentence in Ramon Desert Prison and has already been arrested at least seven times before his continuous arrest since March 14, 2006, after he took responsibility for the Popular Front’s decision to liquidate the Israeli Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in Jerusalem on October 17, 2001, in response to the assassination of “Israel” by the Secretary-General of the Popular Front, Abu Ali Mustafa, in his office in Ramallah on August 27, 2001, in a step that ended the equation of the so-called immunity of the leaders of the occupying state.
He was arrested as part of a major military operation of the occupation, targeting the Jericho prison of the Palestinian Authority, where about 20 Israeli military vehicles stormed the compound that includes the headquarters of the Muqata’a and the Palestinian prison, where Saadat was being detained under British-American supervision.
Ahmed Saadat is a Palestinian politician who currently holds the position of Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is the third Secretary-General of the Front after both the founder, Dr. George Habash, and the assassinated leader, Abu Ali Mustafa.
Ahmed Saadat was born in the city of Al-Bireh on February 23, 1953, to a family that was displaced from its original village, Deir Tarif, in the Ramla district, in 1948, following the Zionist occupation of Palestine. He lived in the city of Al-Bireh and studied at Al-Amari School affiliated with UNRWA, then at Al-Bireh Al-Jadida School, and then at Al-Hashimiyya Secondary School. He also studied mathematics at the Teachers Institute in the city of Ramallah, from which he graduated in 1975.
Saadat joined the Popular Front in 1969. Before that, he joined the student framework. In the Fourth General Conference of the Front in 1981, he was elected a member of its General Central Committee, while he was a member of the West Bank Branch Committee. Since 1994, he has been responsible for the West Bank branch. In the Fifth and Sixth Conferences of the Front, which were held in 1993 and 2000, respectively, he was re-elected to the membership of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau.
After the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Central Committee of the Popular Front met in October 2001, and Saadat was unanimously elected Secretary General by the members of the Central Committee. In 2006, he ran for the Legislative Council elections. At the seventh general conference held in late 2013, he was unanimously re-elected as Secretary-General of the Front, while he is in the occupation prisons, knowing that Saadat is a member of the National and Central Councils of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
He is serving a 30-year prison sentence in Ramon Desert Prison and has already been arrested at least seven times before his continuous arrest since March 14, 2006, after he took responsibility for the Popular Front’s decision to liquidate the Israeli Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in Jerusalem on October 17, 2001, in response to the assassination of “Israel” by the Secretary-General of the Popular Front, Abu Ali Mustafa, in his office in Ramallah on August 27, 2001, in a step that ended the equation of the so-called immunity of the leaders of the occupying state.
He was arrested as part of a major military operation of the occupation, targeting the Jericho prison of the Palestinian Authority, where about 20 Israeli military vehicles stormed the compound that includes the headquarters of the Muqata’a and the Palestinian prison, where Saadat was being detained under British-American supervision.