Talal Abu Zarifa

Talal Abu Zarifa (; 13 May 1960 – 13 May 2024) was a Palestinian communist militant and a politician.

Biography

Abu Zarifa was born in the city of Abasan al-Kabira in Khan Yunis Governorate, in the southeast of the Gaza Strip in 1960, at which time Egypt held sway over the territory.

He belonged to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine when he was a student at the University of Algiers 1 in 1977, and was a member of the General Union of Palestinian Students conference in 1979. Later, in 1983, he obtained a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Algiers, College of Science. He worked in the Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture, Khan Yunis Governorate, and during the Second Intifada and the invasion of Abasan al-Kabira in 2003, the IDF blew his house up. Abu Zarifa said about the formation of the Palestinian Joint Operations Room in 2018:

Death

Talal Abu Zarifa was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, on 13 May 2024 during the Gaza war. Some sources claim that he was targeted for assassination. Palestinian newspaper Felesteen reported that he was killed by an airstrike on his house.