Ahmad Bahar (Palestinian politician) explained

Ahmad Bahar
Birth Place:	Gaza City
Death Place:	Gaza City
Office:	First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council
Term Start:	18 January 2006
Term End:	17 November 2023
1Namedata:	Aziz Dweik
1Blankname:	Speaker
Successor:	vacant
Nationality:	Palestinian
Alma Mater:	Islamic University of Gaza

Ahmad Mohammad Bahar (Arabic: أحمد بحر; 1949 – 17 November 2023) was the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)^[1] since his election to that post on 18 January 2006. Born in Gaza City, Palestine, he was a professor at the Islamic University of Gaza.^{[2] [3]}

In 2012, he delivered a televised sermon in which he prayed for Allah to kill "the Jews and their supporters... [and] the Americans and their supporters... without leaving a single one". This statement has been characterized as incitement to genocide.^[4]

During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war he was fatally injured by an Israeli airstrike. He died from his wounds on 17 November 2023 at the age of 74.^[5]

See also

• Aziz Dweik
• Khalil al-Hayya

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bahar to the world: Stand beside Palestinian rights. The Palestinian Information Center.
2. Web site: Bahar: Resistance will spare no effort to restore prisoners' freedom. The Palestinian Information Center.
3. Web site: PLC: Egyptian ruling on Hamas declaration of war on Palestinian people. The Palestinian Information Center.
4. Spoerl . Joseph S. . Parallels between Nazi and Islamist Anti-Semitism . Jewish Political Studies Review . 2020 . 31 . 1/2 . 210–244 . 26870795 . 0792-335X.
5. News: IDF strike kills top Hamas politbureau member Ahmed Bahar – report . 17 November 2023 . . 17 November 2023.