Ezzedine Kalak (Arabic: عز الدين القلق, romanized: 'Izz al-Din al-Qalaq; 1936–1978) was a member of the Fatah and served as the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in France from 1973 to his assassination in Paris on 3 August 1978.
[1] Kalak was educated in Haifa until Nakba in 1948 when the family had to leave Palestine and settled in Damascus.
Kalak was instrumental in getting support from French artists, including Serge Le Péron and Claude Lazar, for the Palestinian cause.
[1] The PLO office was semi-officially recognized by France on 31 October 1975 and was reopened at the Arab League headquarters in the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris.
[4][5][6] Kalak was the first Palestinian official who was invited to Élysée Palace to attend a ceremony held for the Saudi Arabian King Khalid in 1978.
[7] Kalak and his aide Adnan Hammad were shot to death at the PLO Office in Paris on 3 August 1978.
[10] The perpetrators were Hatem Husni and Kayad Assad who were the members of the Black June, part of the Abu Nidal Organization, a revolutionary Palestinian group.