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HASSAN (SHEIKH) (Abu Ali) SALAMEH

HASSAN (SHEIKH) (Abu Ali) SALAMEH

Birth: NULL/NULL/1913 Death:NULL/NULL/1948
Born in Qula near Lydda in 1913; became political active in the Oct. 1933 revolts in Jaffa; joined Abdul Qader Al-Husseini’s Jihad Al-Muqaddas (Holy War) army in 1934; was wanted by the British army for three years, during which he tried to mobilize people to rise up; during the 1936-1939 Revolt, was commander in the Lydda-Ramleh district and later of the Jaffa area; member of the Palestine Arab Party as regional commander chief member of the bureau of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, established in 1938 by resistance groups; received military training in Iraq from 1939-40 then went to Germany, where he received additional training in military techniques; was among those who blew up the Lydda-Haifa train in 1938; became leader of a resistance group acting in the center of the country (Jaffa-Wadi Al-Saddar) during the Nakba of 1948; also fought in Jerusalem after the death of Abdul Qader Al-Husseini; died in combat at the battle of Ras Al-Ein (Ramleh) on 2 June 1948.

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