Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas leader
Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook (Arabic: موسى محمد أبو مرزوق; born 9 January 1951) is a Palestinian politician and senior member of Hamas who served as the first chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 until 1996 and deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from January 1997 until April 2013, where he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh.
Early life and education
Marzook's parents were from Yibna, (now Yavne, Israel). During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War they were expelled to Rafah Camp in the Gaza Strip. Marzook was born there on 9 January 1951, the second of nine children. During the Six Day War, Marzook's brother Mahmud Abu Marzook joined a fighting force that became a military unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. As a teenager in Rafah, Marzook was introduced to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a member of the secret leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
Marzook completed high school in Gaza, studied engineering in Cairo from 1970 to 1976, and worked as an engineer in Abu Dhabi. By then, he was active in the Muslim Brotherhood. Marzook was an inaugural member of the board of the Islamic University of Gaza, founded by Islamists in 1978. Marzook travelled extensively throughout the Middle East during his years in Abu Dhabi, cultivating political and financial connections in support of his goal to establish an independent Islamist state in Palestine.
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