Career
He also occupies the job of local sheikh in the Deir al-Balah mosque. Kurd is the director of the Gaza Strip-based charity organization Salah Society. The organization has a school which has enrolled 1,000 orphans and other youngsters in Deir al-Balah.
Kurd was born in Deir al-Balah camp a year after his family of five fled their home village near Ashkelon.
Kurd stated to the Washington Post, "I"m not asking to return to Ashkelon. I want to live in Deir al Balah, in a decent city, in an independent Palestinian state like other states.".
