Martyr Kamal Medhat in a Few Lines

 
Source: Al-Manar TV, 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.