Said Fanuna is a Palestinian political/military leader. He was arrested in 1980 by Israel and deported to Lebanon, where he became an officer in the

Fatah Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...

movement of Yasser Arafat. Upon the signing of the

Oslo Accords The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993;

, he was permitted to return to the Palestinian Territories in 1994 and served in the Palestinian National Authority. Although still a member of Fatah, Fanuna has distanced himself from

Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas ( ar, مَحْمُود عَبَّاس, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen ( ar, أَبُو مَازِن, links=no, ), is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian Natio ...

since he became PNA Chairman. After the Battle of Gaza Fanuna was appointed chief of security of the

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...

by the Hamas government of Ismail Haniyeh. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1318444.php/Palestinian_split_widens_as_Fatah_and_Hamas_consolidate__Roundup?compage=20&comcount=23&comlimit=20

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