Martyr Nuri Ahmad Hamalaw was born in 1952 in the village of Khaw, affiliated with the Qaradagh District of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. He was a villager and engaged in farming and animal husbandry. He studied up to the primary level. He was married and had one son.
Nuri Ahmad Hamalaw joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution in 1967 and became a Peshmerga in the Kuikha Omar branch, affiliated with the 5th Ziwe Battalion under the command of Anwar Azwar, affiliated with the Rizgari Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He participated in the Battle of Darbandikhan, the Battle of the Sangaw area, the Battle of Mount Gulan, the Battle of Mount Qaradagh, and the Battle of Mount Zozk. In 1969, he received the rank of Squad Leader.
In 1974, after they attacked several military outposts of the Iraq of that time on Mount Zozk, the artillery of the Iraq regime of that time heavily shelled the positions of the Peshmerga Forces. As a result of that shelling, Nuri Ahmad Hamalaw was martyred, and his body was transported by his comrades to the Sharazur Plain and buried in the cemetery of the Sayidsadiq District.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.