Ghazi al-Jabali was the Gaza Strip Chief of the Preventive Security Service, appointed by the Palestinian Authority. Al-Jabali, who held the rank of Major-General at the close of his tenure in the Palestinian security forces, had been a police commander and chief of the Gaza police since the early 90s.
Since 1994 he has been the target of repeated attacks by Palestinian groups opposed to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, including gunfire aimed at his offices and a bomb that destroyed part of his house.[1] He has also been the subject of a 1997 arrest warrant and extradition request from Israel, based on accusations that he ordered Palestinian police officers to attack an Israeli checkpoint in July, 1997.[2]
Al-Jabali was the target of protests after the shooting deaths of three Palestinian teenagers during clashes with police forces; demonstrators claimed that al-Jabali had given police officers orders to shoot protesters throwing stones during a Hamas organized demonstration in support of Osama bin Laden. [3][4]
Al-Jabali resigned from his post as chief of police in Gaza in June of 2002, during a security forces shake-up that also saw the dismissal of Colonel Jibril Rajoub and the resignation of Colonel Mohammed Dahlan. Along with his resignation he announced his intention to oppose Yaser Arafat as a candidate for president of the Palestinian Authority. [5] He was appointed chief of police in both Gaza and the West Bank in October 2003. [6]
On July 17, 2004, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by the Jenin Martyr's Brigade militant group, who ambushed his convoy and wounded two bodyguards. He was released several hours later. A controversial figure in the Fatah party, al-Jabali was dismissed from his post by Yasser Arafat shortly after his kidnapping.[7]
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