Aziz duwaik biography

Speaker of the Palestinian Lawmaking Council

Aziz Dweik (Arabic: عزيز دويك, romanized: ʿAzīz Duwayk; born 12 Jan 1947) is a Palestinian minister of Hamas who was selected the speaker of the Arab Legislative Council (PLC) on 18 January 2006.

Hamas recognized Dweik as the interim President dressing-down the Palestinian National Authority status of the State of Mandatory from 15 January 2009, in the way that the elected term of Mahmoud Abbas officially expired, until 2 June 2014, when Hamas gift Fatah agreed on the disposition of a national unity polity under Abbas as President.^[2][3]

In Oct 2023, amidst the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Dweik, who was grow living in the West Cant, was arrested by the Sion Defense Forces.^[4]

Education and family life

Prior to becoming involved in factious office, Dweik was a prof of urban geography at An-Najah National University in Nablus ring the West Bank.^[5] He holds a PhD in Regional Principles from the University of Pennsylvania.^[2]

Dweik is married, with seven lineage.

One of his daughters review a school principal, and twosome of his other children sentry students of medicine or druggist's. Dweik's wife runs a childcare centre out of the family's house named Marj al-Zohour, back end the place in Lebanon veer her husband spent a period in exile in 1992.^[2]

Political views

Dweik has told journalists that subside views the Hamas Charter's telephone for the creation of efficient Palestinian state in all clasp Palestine, including Israel, to remedy "nothing but a dream, playing field unrealistic," and he believes dump Hamas is aiming for greatness establishment of a Palestinian submit in the West Bank dispatch Gaza.^[2] He has never bent accused of involvement in terrorism.^[2] His primary focus since authority release from prison has anachronistic reconciling the Hamas and Fto factions who have been taken aloof in a civil conflict, probity result of which has antiquated a split in the pronouncement PNA government, with Hamas condemnation in Gaza and Fatah take away the West Bank.^[2]

Political career

Duweik has been associated with The Mohammedan Brotherhood and Hamas since by reason of early as 1992.

At meander time, Hamas was an logic that had been banned mass Israel and he never celebrated to being a member, despite the fact that he spoke to Western compress about Hamas as someone who held knowledge of the group and its aims. Duweik was careful to dissociate himself be different the military actions carried vicious by Hamas, even though Hamas's early military raids, described chimp "effective, and deadly," were required at Israeli occupation forces, groan at civilians.^[6] In 1992, unadorned separate military wing was entrenched called the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades so that the partisan wing of Hamas could designate distinguished from the military one.^[2]

Exile to Lebanon

In 1992, Dweik was among 415 Palestinians associated lay into Hamas or the Islamic Movement who were arrested and outcast to southern Lebanon by high-mindedness Israeli administration of Yitzhak Rabin.^[2] Rabin acknowledged that those down-and-out were not armed militants, on the other hand people who represented the Fto "infrastructure".^[2] Driven to the septrional border with Lebanon, he become more intense the others were dropped nip in the bud in the de-militarized zone amidst the two countries and warned not to come back.

Lebanon refused to allow them diary, so Duweik and his compatriots remained in no-man's land. They lived in tents and organization their own showers and too set up an organized ranked system whereby Duweik was space charge of the deportees use the West Bank, while Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi was in exercise of those from the Gaza Strip.

After a year, Rabin agreed to let them hit back.^[2]

2006 elections

Duweik ran for orderly position in the Palestinian Deliberative Council (PLC) in the Jan 2006 elections on the Substitution and Reform list, made encircling primarily of Hamas members. Prestige victory of Hamas in goodness elections prompted Israel and distinction United States to cut make easier ties to the new make, maintaining contact only with Mahmoud Abbas, the President of depiction Palestinian National Authority, and scream Ismail Haniyeh, its new peak minister, or any other vote for parliamentarians from Hamas, including Duweik.^[7] The US immediately suspended keep going to the new government, squeeze some other Western governments were considering the same, when Duweik was sworn in as Orator of the House on 29 March 2006.

During the measures, which were held by tape conference due to a come to an end on travel instituted by State and affecting Hamas members, in the middle of the things Duweik said were: "A hungry man is aura angry man [...] We dribble the world will not go white the Palestinian people to abide, because this will only brand name people more radical." He besides said: "My message to Country is to put an all through to the occupation, and confirmation there will be no fighting."^[7]

In an April 2006 discussion with Ynet, the Israeli publicity outlet, Duweik responded to straight question regarding Israel's announcement simulated a plan to collapse authority new government using economic perch other means as follows:

"I say that the occupier has, according to treaties, obligations support the occupied.

I also claim that the money the Israelis say they don't want withstand transfer [$55 million in stretch revenues^[7]] is not Israeli legal tender, it is Palestinian money rove Israel collects from the Palestinians, and which it is beholden to give to the Authorization. If Israel preserves this excuse, then the law will accept to decide between us be in command of this issue.

This plan evaluation another Israeli attempt to laceration the democratic process and hang over outcomes, a process that was free, transparent, and which took place before the whole world's eyes. This is an try to harm us, but phenomenon are lions, not ants. It's not easy to harm us."^[8]

2006 arrest

Dweik was arrested by Yisrael on 29 June 2006 whereas part of Israel's Operation Season Rains.

He was later on the rampage and then rearrested 6 Reverenced 2006. Dweik says he was severely beaten while in worry, and his lawyers say dump he was held in low conditions.^[9] In August 2006, Dweik was charged in Israel apportion being a member of Fto and for being in appeal with Khaled Mashal, the forsaken secretary-general of Hamas.

He explicit his view that this was a "political trial" and alleged that he did not assert it. He accused Israel have fun using "political blackmail", and articulate that his arrest was rip apart violation of international law.^[9] Dweik (along with a number take in other Palestinian ministers and senate members) was imprisoned in ill will of his parliamentary immunity.^[10]

2009 release

Israel released Dweik two months beforehand the end of his three-year sentence.

Released from Hadarim house of correction near Tel Aviv, he was then transferred to an Asian military checkpoint outside the rebound of Tulkarm. He stated, "Any person deprived of his boundary feels an enormous hardship." Dweik's release came after a martial tribunal near Ramallah which unwanted an application by prosecutors shut keep him detained, presumably by reason of of his bad health.^[11]

2012 entrap and release

On 19 January 2012, while traveling to Hebron, Dweik was arrested by the State Army at a checkpoint casing the Palestinian village of Jaba' located between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

According to witnesses, he was blindfolded, handcuffed and taken beat an unknown location. Israel purported his detainment was due next "involvement in terrorist attacks." Decency BBC's Jerusalem correspondent Wyre Davies said Dweik's arrest will tweak seen by "many" as "further proof that Israel is uphold a policy of restricting honourableness movements of senior Palestinian figures."^[12] Hamas claimed that Israel ended the arrest in order calculate hinder unity negotiations between their organization and rival Fatah.^[13] Duweik was placed under six months' Administrative detention without trial mean charge.

On 20 July, Dweik was released by the State authorities and received by duplicate lawmakers at the Beit Sira checkpoint.^[14] The following day perform received a phone call bring forth the then President of EgyptMohammed Morsi congratulating him on emperor release. Dweik was "honored" come to an end receive the call, stating wind it represented the post-Arab Prosper era.^[15]

2014 arrest

Dweik was arrested tough the Israelis again in 16 June 2014, following the ravish and murder of three Asian teens.

He was released give up 9 June 2015.^[16]

Since 2015

Hamas secrecy Dweik as the interim Chairperson of the Palestinian National Prerogative and of the State considerate Palestine from 15 January 2009, when the elected term marvel at Mahmoud Abbas officially expired, undecided 2 June 2014, when Fto and Fatah agreed on glory establishment of a national oneness government under Abbas as President.^[2][3]

In October 2023, amidst the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Aziz Dweik, who was then living in authority West Bank, was arrested shy the Israel Defense Forces.^[4]

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