Fadwa Al-Barghouti (Umm Al-Qassam; born 15 May 1963) is a

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

lawyer and member of the Fatah council. The wife of politician

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, and holds a bachelor's degree in law from Beirut University in 1997. In 2009, she won and became a member of the

Fatah Revolutionary Council The Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) is Fatah’s internal parliamentary body and its second most prominent institution after the Central Committee of Fatah. It consists of approximately 80 members elected from a pool of approximately 140 ...

after elections held during the Sixth Congress of Fatah in Bethlehem. On 4 December 2016, she won again as a member of the council. Fadwa Al-Barghouti will run in the upcoming legislative elections in Palestine on an independent list called "Freedom."

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