Saad Sayel

In 2015, ISIL terrorists captured the Yarmouk camp and destroyed the al-Shohada tomb in the first act. They destroyed the graves of the Palestinian revolution martyrs who had been buried there for 65 years, including Fathi Shaqaqi, Saad Sayel, Khalil al-Wazir and Zuheir Mohsen, in pretext of confronting the manifestations of disbelief.

He was assassinated by Abu Nidal group in Lebanon, near Syria border on 29 September 1982.

Also, he was a selected member of the Palestinian National Council and elected to the Central Committee of the Fatah Movement in its conference held in Damascus in 1980. Abu al Waleed participated in the management of the military operations of the Palestinian revolutionary forces in their confrontation with the Israeli forces in Lebanon and get the title of Marshal of the Beirut because of his braveries.

In 1980, he became a member of the Central Committee of Fatah movement and led the Central Operations and Command Room of the Lebanese Joint Forces Palestine. In June 1982, after the Israeli forces besieged Beirut, Saad Sayel was the leading Fatah commander along with Yasser Arafat and Khalil Wazir. That is why it became known as the "Marshal of the Revolution" among the resistance forces.

When Sayel joined the Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fatah, he was assigned to important military positions. For example, he appointed as director of the Central Operations Authority of the Palestinian Revolutionary Forces, a member of the General Command of the storm forces and a member of the leadership of the Occupied territory after being promoted to the rank of brigadier. In 1978, he led the Fatah forces against the Israeli invasion in Lebanon.

Sayel served as a soldier in the Jordanian army, but in the 1970 Jordan-PLO conflict between the monarchy and the fedayeen, he opted to join and support Fatah. Because of his military experience, he established the Yarmouk Brigade, which played an active role in Lebanon and Palestine later. It was an attempt to professionalize the Palestinian military.

He spent the military engineering course (Bridge Design and Classification Engineering) in England in 1954. Also he spent the bridge design course in Iraq in 1958 and the military engineering course in England again in 1959. In 1960, after passing advanced military engineering in the United States, he underwent further training at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. In 1965, he spent the air defense course in Egypt. Also, he went through special courses in the Soviet Union.

Sayel was born in the Kafr Ghalil village located in the eastern foot of Mount Gerizim, "Jabal et Tur" one of the mountains of Nablus. He spent his elementary and secondary education there. He traveled to Jordan as a teenager and joined the army there. In 1951, Saad Sayel went to the Jordanian Military College to receive specialized military training and after military training, he was assigned to the command of the Husain ibn Ali infantry brigade with Colonel rank.