Muhammad "Abu Maher" Ghneim (محمد "أبو ماهر" راتب غنيم, b.
Receiving military training from the People's Republic of China, Ghneim became a commander of Fatah's official armed wing al-Assifa ("the Storm").
[1] Following the PLO's departure from Lebanon in the early 1980s, Ghneim moved to Tunisia with much of the Palestinian leadership.
[3] Ghneim opposed the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords signed by Arafat, and refused to return to the Palestine until all of its territory was "liberated," i.e. including modern-day Israel.
He had remained in exile in Tunisia,[4] but returned to the West Bank on July 29, 2009, to attend the Fatah General Conference in Bethlehem in August 2009 and was elected as a member of its Central Committee..[5] Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas reportedly convinced Israeli authorities to allow Ghneim to enter the Palestinian territories and permanently live there.