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  1. Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook (Arabic: موسى محمد أبو مرزوق; born 9 January 1951) is a Palestinian senior member of Hamas. Early life and education [ edit ] Marzook's parents were from Yibna , Mandatory Palestine (now Yavne , Israel). [1]

  2. Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook was born in Rafa in the Gaza Strip in 1951. He graduated from Helwan University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1975 and obtained a master’s degree in construction management from Colorado State University in 1984. He received a doctorate in industrial engineering from Louisiana Tech in 1992.

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    Mashal was born in 1956 in Silwad in the Jordanian-ruled West Bank. He attended Silwad Elementary School until fifth grade. His father, Abd al-Qadir Mashal, was a farmer (fellah) and had moved to Kuwait in 1957 to work in agriculture and as an imam. He had participated in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt with the Palestinian guerilla leader Abd al-Qadir a...

    After graduating, Mashal became a teacher and taught physics in Kuwait until 1984. In 1983, the Palestinian Islamic movement convened an internal, closed conference in an Arab state, which included delegates from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Palestinian refugees from Arab states. The conference laid the foundation stone for the creation of Hamas. ...

    Mashal believes that U.S. Middle East policy is hypocritical and not about democracy. The U.S. has no problem with a dictator that supports the U.S., but a democratic leader that is against it is treated like an enemy, he argues.

    In 2010, the British New Statesman magazine listed Khaled Mashal at number 18 in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". After his appearance at a congress of the Turkish Justice and Development Party(AKP), the U.S. was concerned about the relations between the party and the Hamas.

    During the 2014 Gaza war, Israel accused Mashal of corruption. In an interview Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "This guy Khaled Mashal, he's roaming around, five-star hotel suites in the Gulfstates, he's having the time of his life, while he's deliberately putting his people as fodder for this horrible terrorist war that they're conducting ...

    Mashal married in 1980 or 1981[a] and is the father of three daughters and four sons. In 2023 he lived in Qatar,where he had moved in 2012. Mashal's half-brother is the former Al-Sakhra Band singer and former Dallas Public Works and Transportation Department engineer Mufid Abdulqader. Abduqalder is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the United St...

  4. Aug 11, 1996 · Mousa Abu Marzook, part of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, spent more than a decade in the United States before facing extradition to Israel. Then he was arrested at J.F.K., Mary Anne ...

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  5. Interview With Mousa Abu Marzook. Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is the head of the Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) political bureau. He has been imprisoned at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City since July 1995, when he was taken into custody at Kennedy Airport after his name turned up on the Immigration and ...

  6. Nov 4, 2023 · Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzouk is a member of Hamas’s political bureau who previously served as its deputy chair under former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal. November 4, 2023: Tells the BBC that “women, children and civilians were exempt” during the October 7 attack, despite contradictory video evidence and testimonials from Hamas attackers ...