[4] Adwan joined the Palestinian national movement in 1952, when he helped to establish the “justice battalion"[5] in Gaza with Khalil al-Wazir, who was later killed in an Israeli commando operation in 1988.
He then spent his first year as a graduate in Saudi Arabia before he moved to Qatar where he met other Fatah founders including Yasser Arafat.
[6] He held several political and military positions which included the following: According to Israeli sources, Adwan was directly involved in the Black September Organization.
After obtaining approval from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir,[7] Mossad began a covert assassinations campaign.
[8][better source needed] In his book, The Israeli Secret Services, Ami Pedahzur claims that Adwan seemed to have little or no connection to the Munich hostage crisis,[9] suggesting Mossad's non-involvement in his death.
[10] Kamal was killed in his flat in Beirut, in front of his wife, by Israeli commandos on 10 April 1973 as part of Operation Spring of Youth.