 Since then, the family has played a central role in Palestinian society in general and, especially, within the Palestinian national movement.Hadi was born in Nablus on 22 March 1944 and spent most of his early childhood in Jaffa where his father Fouad Adbul Hadi was a landlord in Palestine (the Arabian Triangle – Khidara).During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the family had to leave their home and they became refugees in Lebanon.