Comrade Al-Hakim was born on August 1, 1925 in the city of al-Lydd, Palestine; at the time, Palestine was under British colonial control under the British Mandate, and Palestinians were facing the materialization of the colonial settler project known today as Israel. Dr. Habash attended Anglican school and then public school in al-Lydd during his early education; he then studied at the Orthodox school in Yafa, before secondary school in Jerusalem. He completed high school in 1942. During his childhood years, he was deeply influenced by the situation in Palestine, including the Palestinian revolution which took place between 1936 and 1939 against British colonialism and impending Zionist colonialism. He returned to Yafa after graduating high school, teaching for two years in the same school he attended before enrolling in the American University of Beirut in 1944 to study medicine.

In 1948, while Comrade Habash was studying in Beirut, al-Nakba took place, in which over 700,000 Palestinians, including Dr. Habash's family and many other Palestinians in al-Lydd, were driven from their homes and made refugees. Along with other Palestinian and Arab comrades in Beirut, in response to al-Nakba, Dr. Habash founded the Arab Nationalist Movement. This movement became very strong among youth, students and intellectuals across the Arab world, and was the first pan-Arab movement to take up armed struggle to confront colonialism and to liberate occupied Arab land. After graduating with his medical degree in 1951, he participated in clinics serving Palestinian refugees in the camps in Jordan along with Comrade martyr Dr. Wadi' Haddad, while continuing his leadership of the Arab Nationalist Movement.

After the defeat of 1967, he and his comrades established the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Palestinian revolution was under severe attack at the time, not only by Israel and imperialism, but also by reactionary forces and regimes in the Arab world. In Jordan, the Palestinian movement faced massacres at the hands of the regime, and was forced to flee to Lebanon, where a new base of the Palestinian revolution was established. In Lebanon, Dr. Habash continued his leadership of the Front throughout the civil war and the Israeli invasion, until 1982, when the PLO and its activists, fighters and institutions were forced to leave Lebanon. Al-Hakim and his comrades went to Damascus in 1982, after which he focused heavily on the establishment and development of institutions inside Palestine, as well as the protection of the Palestinian revolution's existence, recognizing as he did the dangers to Palestinian rights posed by the beginnings of the so-called "peace process;" for example, initiatives by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and the so-called Amman agreement of 1985.

In 1987, with the outbreak of the great Intifada, Dr. Habash called for upholding Palestinian national unity, and convening the Palestinian National Congress in Algeria in 1988. Comrade Al-Hakim always understood national unity as a necessary condition for the continuation of the struggle and the national liberation movement, whether in Beirut during internal fighting among Palestinians and after as well, recognizing that the internal contradictions among Palestinians could not be solved through military mechanisms, but rather through the democratic processes of the liberation movement.

In 1993, when the Oslo agreement was signed, Comrade Al-Hakim called for maximum popular opposition to the agreement and saw in it a defeat to the Palestinian traditional leadership of the PLO. Dr. Habash warned that the Oslo agreement particularly targeted a central issue of the Palestinian national movement, the right to return. In 1994 and 1995, he called for internal and external meetings for Palestinian leaders and activists in exile, to launch campaigns and establish al-Awda committees and right to return organizations everywhere possible in order to protect this vital and central right for Palestinian refugees in light of the new threat posed by Oslo and its effects.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine convened its sixth conference in 2000, in which Dr. Habash participated, delivering his last address as General Secretary, before declaring his resignation from the post. He did this, providing an example for allowing the transfer of leadership within an organization through its democratic processes, which he upheld as a value that strengthened, rather than weakened, organizations and movements. The Front elected Abu Ali Mustafa to succeed Dr. Habash as General Secretary.

From 2000 through 2008, Dr. Habash established the al-Ghad al-Arabi center for studies and lived in Amman near his daughters and family. He is survived by his wife, Hilda and two daughters, Maysa and Lama.

Comrade Al-Hakim, throughout his life, demonstrated not only the highest level of care and dedication to his people, but also consistently and clearly conveyed and developed a scientific vision and analysis both of the future of the revolution and the dangers and plans against it forged by the enemies of his people. Al-Hakim has left us with a rich experience bearing many legacies from which we can benefit and learn, as we continue along his path until the liberation of Palestine.

Dr. George Habash address to the Sixth Conference of the PFLP

Comrades! What I have lived through over the course of these militant decades, and the rich experience I have acquired is not a matter to be taken for granted. It is your right, and the right of coming generations to review the content and lessons of this experience with all of its many successes and failures. We cannot seize the future without having read our history well, not in order to be enslaved by that history, but in order to benefit from it as a necessary precondition for dealing with the future. The present is a qualitative extension of the past, while at the same time, it constitutes the material and intellectual foundation for the building of the future.

The Palestinian progressive Youth Union in the town of Beit Furik receives a high-level delegation Youth Union in Beit Furik receive the delegation consists Projects Director of the Middle East Section of the Spanish government and Spanish Ausker FUINCA Director and the Director of the Center for Development and Nissan with research delegation of the two facilities from the two sides briefed the delegation on the progress of the draft neighborly corner specialist in community development were also briefed on the situation and the suffering of the town of Beit Furik. This delegation was received by the Mayor of Beit Furik Mr. Abdel Basset Hanani and the Director of the Center for Progressive Palestinian Youth Union, Mr. Zahi Zlmut Amjad and Director of the Center for Children of the Progressive Youth Union in the town, Mr. Alaa Hanani and many members of the Union and members committees of the Union of Palestinian Women, which welcomed Mr. Zahi Zlmut Director of the Center for European city, honored guests and talked about the needs of the European, the goal was to explain the draft corner neighborly renovation project has been requested again, and then Mr. Abdel Basset Hanani the mayor of Beit Furik, about the status of the country, it also pointed out a project to extend the water network in the town of Beit Furik, which is experiencing a serious shortage in water and then thanked the delegation for the visit on behalf of Beit Furik, and then the delegation inspecting some small projects supported by the project through the loan program, and finally addressed lunch at the Youth Union and bid farewell to guests.

A group ended SANABEL of the Palestinian folk arts belonging to the Palestinian progressive youth union a round in all the Italian cities for a month, they included art shows inspired from the Palestinian folklore within a program of the cultural exchange with financing from the Palestinian Arab democratic union in Italy, through it the group with the presentation of popular Dabka presentations rose and organized many of the evenings and the festivals in different cities from the south until the Italian north, as and the group presented art shows and a musician participant with Italian groups through her the training on the Palestinian traditional dances and the Italian popular dances took place, and the training on the music and the Palestinian traditional songs, and the organization of visits program took place to the universities, holding meetings and seminars with university students, enterprises and social centers and municipalities, and this round comes within a program that the Palestinian Arab democratic union organizes in Italy every year, The crowd of the solidarity aims with the Palestinian people, the definition of the Palestinian cause and suffering the Palestinian people .

The center of the Palestinian progressive youth union in Beit Furik town organizes a campaign for the distribution of medicines among the schools students and that is with the choice of random halls to the students in all the town schools, as it has distributed another part among the poor and needy families and the number of the beneficiaries reached from the distribution campaign 300 persons and this comes from in cooperation with the program of the German support to the Palestinian people, and on the other side it undertook the Palestinian progressive youth union with giving strengthening turns to the schools students to the second class and to all of the stages where it inaugurated the union building halls and AMJAD position building of the childhood belonging to the union in the town so that it assimilates the students numbers benefiting from this program and that exceeded their number 400 students and a student .

The Palestinian progressive youth union in Tulkarm governorate organized and in cooperation with the union of the committees of the health work a free medical workday in its country Deir Al-Ghosoun in north of City of Tulkarm where it represents today the medical by a specialized medical crew composed of doctors and the crew has included the next specializations : year medicine, women and the health of woman, a nose, an ear and a larynx, and my interior, where the distribution of medicines for free among the patients took place and an examination has taken place more than 150 its condition from all of the specializations and its treatment as and the transfer of a number of the cases took place for the medical follow-up in the centers of the health union .

The Palestinian progressive youth union in Hebron governorate ended, four workshops around " the children rights in the education and in the society ", that its composition were in cooperation with " Defence for Children International " .And he participated in the workshops, that were organized in the union headquarters in the city about 30 children, their ages range between 12 and 17 years .And these workshops come within a group of workshops, continued for two weeks, and was distributed on four intensive stages, in them the explanation of concepts and rules that concentrates on the children right in the education and the participation through the school in building the society and the legal consideration for the education and the child rights took place the generation of future and building .And was the first workshop, confined to the notification of some the children by some and the explanation of the importance of such activities, and the importance of topics that will be discussed in it and the programs that suit the participants level without their hindrance about their schools .And the second workshop, that mrs. Maysoun Al Sherif ran, focused on the rights and the duties on the family and the children towards the education, while took the third workshop, that mr. Mohamed Abu Hshhsh, statistics and comparisons ran by the other societies .And the fourth workshop, that the lawyer Mohamed Al-Tetey ran, discussed the legality of the children rights in the education and in the society, and reached elaborate discussion with the participants, their view and their benefit extent from these workshops, where he showed his complete readiness for the participation in similar activities which would lead to the expansion of their senses and a knowledge the way of their rights collection.

The union organized a voluntary work program in Beit Lahiya city for a week in cooperation with Beit Lahiya municipality, the enterprise of the Italian CRIC and the Italian consulate and that through administration project and the repetition of the use of the house wastes with the partnership of 100 volunteers of young men and the boys from both of the races, and through it an execution took place an open meeting and a voluntary workday in the city, the day of murals drawing and an entertaining day on the seashore of the volunteers and an open day for the generalization of the concepts of the repetition of the house wastes use, exhibition day and a workshop with the families .