Background
Yacef Omar was born in 1944 at the Casbah of Algiers in a kabyle family.
Yacef Omar was born in 1944 at the Casbah of Algiers in a kabyle family.
He is the nephew of Yacef Saadi, leader of the Autonomous Zone of Algiers. Little Omar grew in the big familial house with Yacef Saadi. Courier between the militants and the FLN leaders, he succeeded to cross all police roadblocks and elude the French paratroopers in the hardest moments of the Battle of Algiers.
On October 8, 1957 paratrooper commandos of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment destroyed the house where he was hiding following their refusal to surrender, killing him along with Hassiba Ben Bouali, Ali Louisiana Pointe, Hamid Bouhamidi and 16 others
A New ultramodern hospital located at Draa Ben Khedda was named “Yacef Omar Hospital” in tribute to the child of the Casbah.
Little Omar was the liaison officer between the fighters and the leaders of the FLN (National Liberation Front) during the “Battle of Algiers”.
