Martyr Mistefa Xerîb was born in 1942 in the village of Balekiyan in the Diana town, which is part of the Erbil governorate. He was a villager and engaged in farming. He was illiterate and married.
In 1974, he made contact with the September Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Hamid Efendi battalion, which was part of the Balek force. He participated in the battles of Gorez, Sertiz, Gerwebesh, and Gali Ali Beg. On April 16, 1974, during an attack on the Iraqi regime's army, he and his brother, named Shex Xerîb Shex, who was also a Peshmerga, were martyred by the bullets of the Iraqi regime in Gali Ali Beg.
Source:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia