Mahmoud al-Aloul | |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Office: | Vice Chairman of Central Committee of Fatah |
Term Start: | 15 February 2017 |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Office1: | Member of Central Committee of Fatah |
Term Start1: | August 2009 |
Office2: | Minister of Labour |
Term Start2: | 17 March 2007 |
Term End2: | 14 June 2007 |
President2: | Mahmoud Abbas |
Primeminister2: | Ismail Haniyeh |
Predecessor2: | Mohammad Barghouti |
Successor2: | Samir Abdullah |
Office3: | Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council for Nablus Governorate |
Term Start3: | 18 February 2006 |
Office4: | Governor of Nablus Governorate[1] |
President4: | Yasser Arafat |
Term Start4: | 1995 |
Term End4: | 2005 |
Successor4: | Saeed Abu Ali |
Birth Date: | 11 December 1950 |
Birth Place: | Nablus, West Bank, Jordan |
Nationality: | Palestine |
Party: | Fatah |
Alma Mater: | Beirut Arab University (BA)[2] |
Profession: | Politician, activist |
Mahmoud al-Aloul (ar|محمود العالول) (born 11 December 1950) is a Palestinian politician who formerly served as the governor of the Palestinian Authority's Nablus governorate[3] in the Central Highlands of the West Bank from 1995 to 2005. Al-Aloul was elected to the Central Committee of Fatah in August 2009 during the 6th General Conference, and later became Vice Chairman following the 7th General Conference held in 2016.
In early 2018, he was widely discussed as the likely successor to Mahmoud Abbas as President of the Palestinian National Authority.[4] After the Six-Day War, al-Aloul was arrested by Israel and sent to live in Jordan, where he joined Fatah. He rose within Fatah, and, in the 1970s, moved to Lebanon. There he served under Khalil al-Wazir, as commander of a Fatah brigade that captured eight Israeli soldiers in 1983. The Israeli prisoners were exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli hands.
According to Aloul, the Palestinians still maintain their belief in armed struggle against the State of Israel.[5]