Official Website — English Summary
Mohammed Dahlan
Palestinian National Leader
ليس هناك شعب ينتصر على المحتل ما لم يتوحّد خلف قيادة أمينة مناضلة متمسكة بالحق.
“No people prevails over an occupier unless it unites behind an honest, striving leadership that holds fast to its rights.”
This page is an English summary of the official website. The full site — news, political positions, the documented record — is published in Arabic. Where this summary and the Arabic original differ, the Arabic text prevails.
Biography
Translated from the approved biography published in the Arabic press room.
Mohammed Yousef Shaker Dahlan, “Abu Fadi” (born 29 September 1961), is a Palestinian politician and a leader in the Fatah movement, founder of the Democratic Reform Current, and former head of the Preventive Security Service in Gaza. He received the highest share of votes among Fatah’s candidates in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections, and was elected to Fatah’s Central Committee at the movement’s Sixth Congress, held in Bethlehem on 4 August 2009.
He was imprisoned for five years in Israeli jails between 1981 and 1986, and was deported to Jordan in 1987. He is a fluent speaker of Arabic and Hebrew, and currently resides in the United Arab Emirates.
Career Timeline
The same dated milestones published on the Arabic biography page.
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1980
Egypt
Left Gaza for the first time at nineteen to study physical education at an Egyptian university. A phone call arranged there with Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) led him to return to Gaza, devote himself to national work in Fatah’s ranks, and take part in founding the Fatah Youth movement (Shabiba) while studying at the Islamic University.
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1981
Imprisonment
Arrested in 1981 for joining Fatah and for his activism; imprisoned in Israeli jails until 1986. He was expelled to Jordan in 1987, then moved through Egypt and Iraq before settling in Tunis.
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1987
Tunis
In Tunis, alongside the Fatah leadership under Yasser Arafat, he took part in the negotiations with Israel that began in the late 1980s, and in the work of the First Intifada of 1987.
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1993
Return to Palestine
After the Oslo Accord was signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, he was chosen to head the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Gaza, building a force of some 20,000 members.
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2006
Legislative Council Elections
Received the highest share of votes among Fatah’s candidates in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
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2009
Fatah Central Committee
Elected to Fatah’s Central Committee at the movement’s Sixth Congress, held in Bethlehem on 4 August 2009.
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سجل
Documented record — not Media Office text
These stations are published with sources on the Arabic documented record. They are listed there so they are not attributed to the Media Office: Preventive Security (external sources in the record date the appointment 1994; the Media Office dates it 1993); Minister of State for Security Affairs; Minister of Civil Affairs.
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Later milestones — awaiting Media Office texts
The dated milestones published by the Media Office end at 2009, exactly as on the Arabic page. Later milestones are added once their texts are approved.
Mission, Vision & Positions
Translated from the Arabic positions page, which carries each position with its published source.
Mission
خلق واقع أكثر أمانًا… وغدٍ أكثر استقرارًا وازدهارًا لشعبنا الفلسطيني.
Creating a safer present — and a more stable, more prosperous tomorrow — for our Palestinian people.
Vision
إعادة بناء المنظومة الفلسطينية السياسية والاقتصادية والقانونية والاجتماعية بشكل أفضل، في إطار برنامج تحرر وطني.
Rebuilding the Palestinian political, economic, legal and social order on a better footing, within a program of national liberation.
The Arabic site publishes 15 documented positions across six themes — each shown only with a published source:
- National unity
- Political reform
- Economy & empowerment
- Society & the individual
- Prisoners & rights
- National point of reference
Field Work
Each item below is a news story published by the Media Office on the Arabic news page.
- Opening of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Emirati field hospital in Gaza.
- Deliveries of medical aid and vaccines to Gaza with Emirati support.
- An oxygen station for Gaza’s health sector.
- 130,000 litres of diesel supplied to municipalities in the Gaza Strip to keep essential services running.
- Electric wheelchairs distributed to people of determination, provided by the Emirates Red Crescent.
- A grant to farmers whose crops were damaged by the winter storm.
Contact the Media Office
- Address
- Al Maamoura Building 45, Ahl Al Azm Street, Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi 22221, United Arab Emirates
- Telephone
- +971 2 301 3333
- info@dahlan.ps
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