Ahmad Bahar
أحمد بحر
First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council
In office
18 January 2006 – 17 November 2023
SpeakerAziz Dweik
Succeeded byvacant
Personal details
Born1949 (1949)
Gaza City
Died (aged 74)
Gaza City
NationalityPalestinian
Alma materIslamic University of Gaza

Ahmad Mohammad Bahar (Arabic: أحمد بحر, 1949 – 17 November 2023) was the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)[1] since his election to that post on 18 January 2006. Born in Gaza City, Palestine, he was a professor at the Islamic University of Gaza.[2][3]

In 2012, he delivered a televised sermon in which he prayed for Allah to kill "the Jews and their supporters... [and] the Americans and their supporters... without leaving a single one". This statement has been characterized as incitement to genocide.[4]

During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war he was fatally injured by an Israeli airstrike. He died from his wounds on 17 November 2023 at the age of 74.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bahar to the world: Stand beside Palestinian rights". The Palestinian Information Center.
  2. ↑ "Bahar: Resistance will spare no effort to restore prisoners' freedom". The Palestinian Information Center.
  3. ↑ "PLC: Egyptian ruling on Hamas declaration of war on Palestinian people". The Palestinian Information Center.
  4. ↑ Spoerl, Joseph S. (2020). "Parallels between Nazi and Islamist Anti-Semitism". Jewish Political Studies Review. 31 (1/2): 210–244. ISSN 0792-335X. JSTOR 26870795.
  5. ↑ "IDF strike kills top Hamas politbureau member Ahmed Bahar – report". i24 News. 17 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
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