Ahmad Bahar | |
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أحمد بحر | |
First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council | |
In office 18 January 2006 –17 November 2023 | |
Speaker | Aziz Dweik |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Personal details | |
Born | 1949 (1949) Gaza City,Palestine |
Died | (aged 74) Gaza City,Palestine |
Alma mater | Islamic University of Gaza |
Ahmad Mohammad Bahar (Arabic :أحمدبحر;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 Gaza war he was fatally injured by an Israeli airstrike. He died from his wounds on 17 November 2023 at the age of 74. [5]