Rami Hamdallah (Arabic: رامي الحمد الله, romanized: Rāmī al-Ḥamd Allāh; born 10 August 1958) is a Palestinian politician and academic.
He served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine from 2013 to 2019[1] and was previously the president of An-Najah National University in Nablus from 1998 to 2013.
[12] Hamdallah, widely known as Abū Wālid ('Father of Walid', after one of his deceased children) is a professor at An-Najah National University.
[20] Hamdallah's resignation was praised by Mohammed Dajani, the founder of the Wastia Movement of Moderate Islam in the West Bank, who stated that "I respect him for taking this decision.
[22] Hamdallah was travelling at the time with Majid Faraj [ar; he], the Palestinian security chief, and neither man was injured.
Hamas claimed that it had shot and killed the suspect and an accomplice to the attempted assassination on March 22 in a shootout in which two of its own members also died.