Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian struggle figures who fought the battle against the Israeli occupation for many years. He lived through the revolution in many of its important stations.

Abu Bakr died, today, Saturday, as a result of an unfortunate traffic accident south of Nablus, after returning from a greeting celebration that he himself supervised for the children of prisoners in the occupation prisons.

Who is Abu Bakr?

Qadri Omar Muhammad Abu Bakr was born on January 10, 1953, in the town of Bidya, west of Salfit, where he received his primary and preparatory education, while his first arrest was during the secondary school period in 1974, which he finished in the occupation prisons, before he was released. He obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Beirut Arab University in 1991.

In 1968, Abu Bakr became a member of the Fatah movement, then he received military training in its camps in Jordan, and the camps of the Palestine Liberation Army in Iraq. Including 17 years and was deported to Iraq.

In 1986, he was appointed director of the office of one of the leaders of the Palestinian revolution, Khalil Al-Wazir, for several years, and in 1996 he returned to the West Bank.

In 2009, he was appointed as a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Authority for Military Retired, and assumed responsibility for the Israeli file and archive after his participation in the Sixth General Conference of the Fatah movement, and continued until the Seventh Conference in 2016, to be chosen as a member of the Movement’s Revolutionary Council, and in 2018 he was appointed Chairman of the Authority. The Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in 2019 he was granted the rank of minister, and he was granted membership in the Palestinian National Council.

While he was in the occupation prisons, Abu Bakr published two books in collaboration with others: the book “Palestinian Detainees from Repression to the Revolutionary Authority” and the book “Management and Organization of the Captive Palestinian National Movement.” He also published “This is My Identity” in 1979, and “Interrogation Methods.” Israeli Intelligence", 1980, and "How do you confront the interrogator?" 1980, and "From Repression to Revolutionary Power", 1992.