In 1948, Hazimeh and his family suffered expulsion from Mandatory Palestine and they fled by boat to Latakia, Syria as refugees.

[3] In Latakia, he initially worked on the docks to support his family, before eventually becoming an art teacher and a bookkeeper.

In 1960, Hazimeh was awarded a scholarship to study at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in Leipzig, Germany.

[4] In 2007, he designed the United Buddy Bear for Palestine, which has been presented at the exhibitions 2007 in Cairo, Jerusalem and 2008 in Warsaw, Stuttgart and Pyongyang so far.

Hazimeh painted rural scenes, in an autumnal palette, with recurring figures of Palestinian peasant women carrying baskets on their heads.