In Gaza, it was announced today, Friday, that Ahmed Bahr, the acting head of the Legislative Council and one of the leaders of Hamas, died from his injuries sustained in a previous Israeli airstrike.
Ahmed Mohammed Atiyah Bahr (born in Gaza, 1949) is a Palestinian politician, a member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and the First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He became the acting head of the council after the Israeli army arrested the council's head, Aziz Dweik. He is married and has thirteen children. He holds a degree in the Quran and Quranic recitation with a chain of narration to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, from Palestine. He also holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Language from Palestine. He was administratively detained by the Israeli army without charge for two years in 1989.
**Previous Positions:**
- Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Imam Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Conference (Palestine).
- Co-founder of the Quran and Sunnah Foundation in Gaza (Palestine).
- Teacher at the Sharia Secondary School in Hebron (1971 - 1974).
- Imam and preacher at the Beit Ummar Mosque in Hebron Governorate (1972 - 1976).
- Deputy head of the workers' union at the Islamic University (1984).
- Secretary-General of the Islamic Society in Gaza (1985 - 2004).
- Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Islamic University in Gaza (2002 - 2003).
**Current Positions:**
- First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (Palestine).
- Lecturer in the Arabic Language Department at the Islamic University of Gaza (Palestine).
- Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing the Reform and Change List. He was elected as a representative from Gaza, receiving 73,988 votes.
