Jamil Mezher

Jamil Saleh Abdullah Mezher (also transliterated from Arabic as Mazhar; ; born 16 July 1964) is a Palestinian socialist militant and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist–Leninist Palestinian nationalist organisation, since 2022.

Biography Mezher was born in Gaza in 1964, to a family of refugees that settled in the Nuseirat refugee camp. He joined the PFLP in 1980, when he was 16 years old. He holds a bachelor's degree in administration.

During the Gaza war of 2008–2009, he was the subject of an Israeli assassination attempt at Nuseirat where his home was targeted, which he survived. He played a key part in organizing and establishing several civil societies and charities with leftist and progressive natures. He played an important role in organizing the PFLP in preparation for, and following the start of the Gaza war, and he left the strip a month before its start, for Syria.