22 Facts About Ibrahim Ghosheh

Ibrahim Ghosheh was a Palestinian civil engineer.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and joined the Hamas in 1989.

Ibrahim Ghosheh served as the latter's spokesperson between 1992 and 1999.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was a graduate of the Rashidiya School in Jerusalem.

Ibrahim Ghosheh's family had to leave Jerusalem during the Nakba in 1948, and they settled in Jericho.

Ibrahim Ghosheh obtained a degree in civil engineering in 1961 from the Cairo University.

Ibrahim Ghosheh settled in Jordan in 1966 and was employed as an engineer in the Khaled Dam project until 1971.

Ibrahim Ghosheh worked in the Kuwait Towers project for one year from 1971 to 1972.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was a freelance engineer from 1978 to 1989.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was affiliated with the Palestinian branches of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood from 1950s.

Tahsin Khreis, a leader of the movement in Jordan, along with Ibrahim Ghosheh, sought to lay a realistic foundation as a "practical Jihad" and were critical of group-think within the organization prior to its detection and 1970 suppression by Jordanian authorities.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was elected as the head of the Muslim Brotherhood faction in the Jordanian Engineers Association in 1973.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was named as the head of its information service and spokesman in late 1992 based in Amman.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was a member of the Hamas political bureau which was established in Amman in 1996.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was arrested by the Jordanian security forces and detained for a short time in 1997.

Later Mashal and Ibrahim Ghosheh were charged with possessing weapons and raising funds for Hamas.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was part of the reformist-activist group within Hamas who supported the practical jihadist activities.

Ibrahim Ghosheh was among the critics of the military activity of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ibrahim Ghosheh did not support the participation of the Hamas in the 2006 legislative election claiming that it might weaken the resistance among the Hamas cadres.

Ibrahim Ghosheh added that if Hamas leaders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi were alive, Hamas would not take part in the election.

Ibrahim Ghosheh declared in his memoirs that his affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood movement began while he was attending the seventh grade in Jerusalem.

Ibrahim Ghosheh stated in the book that there was no difference of opinion between the Muslim Brotherhood and Fatah members in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s and that the magazine of Fatah, Falastinuna, was financially supported by the exiled members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait.