Ahmad Bahar (Palestinian politician)

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Ahmad Mohammad Bahar (Arabic: أحمد بحر; 1949 – 17 November 2023) was the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)[1] since his election to that post on 18 January 2006.

[2][3] In 2012, he delivered a televised sermon in which he prayed for Allah to kill "the Jews and their supporters... [and] the Americans and their supporters... without leaving a single one".

[4] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war he was fatally injured by an Israeli airstrike.

He died from his wounds on 17 November 2023 at the age of 74.