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Kathir Akbar

Kathir Akbar (12 June 1933-10 December 1970) was a PLO leader.

Biography[]

Kathir Akbar was born on 12 June 1933 in Yafit, Mandatory Palestine to a Sunni Muslim family of Palestinians. Akbar joined the Palestine Liberation Organization to fight against Israel and gain independence for Palestine, and he was one of the leaders of the PLO guerrillas in refugee camps in Jordan at the time of Black September. Akbar was killed by the Jordanian Army during the Jordanian attack on the occupied territories.

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