Jumah Hammad

Jumah Hammad (Arabic: جمعة حماد) is a writer, novelist and politician who is Jordanian of Palestinian origin. He occupied many political positions. He died in 1995 in Arish. He was born in 1923 in Auja al-Hafir, Beersheba Subdistrict, Palestine. He completed his high school education in Gaza in 1942. He joined the Palestinian Security Forces in the early 1940s and worked on radio communications in Beersheba Subdistrict. He contributed to founding Beersheba Youth Front to resist the Zionist invasion in 1946. In addition, the outbreak of armed conflict prevented him from reconciling his work in Security Forces with his patriotic duty, therefore, he joined the Mujahideen in Beersheba with whom he fought a turf war in the Palestinian Revolution. Upon being accused of crimes, Hammad left to Jordan. He participated in a number of national organizations and conferences and contributed to voluntary charitable associations such as, Al-Bir Society for Martyrs Sons in Jericho in 1954.