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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Adham Ibrahim Abu Salmiya was born in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip on November 12, 1987, to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the displaced village of al-Joura in the occupied Gaza Strip. He is married with four sons and two daughters. He studied primary school at the Deir al-Balah School affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and secondary school at Al-Manfaluti Secondary School, from which he obtained his high school diploma in 2005. He obtained a diploma in office management and automation (secretarial) from the University College of Applied Sciences in 2008, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Al-Ummah University in 2012, and a master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations from the Academy of Management and Politics affiliated with Al-Aqsa University in 2016. He joined Marmara University in Istanbul to obtain a doctorate in international relations. He worked as a media spokesperson for the Supreme Emergency and Ambulance Authority at the Ministry of Health between ( 2009-2013) , and became Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Deir al-Balah Zakat Committee between (2015-2019), then Director of Marketing and Arab Relations at the Al-Khair Foundation in Istanbul .
Abu Salmiya was active in political and humanitarian work; he was a member of the National Authority to Break the Siege on Gaza, and a media spokesperson on its behalf between 2013-2020, and a member of the committee to receive delegations coming to break the siege on Gaza for ten years. He participated in regional and international conferences held in Turkey, Yemen, Tunisia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Malaysia, through which he conveyed the suffering of the Gaza Strip under the siege, and he is also hosted on various media outlets, including satellite channels, to talk about this suffering.
Abu Salmiya believes that the future of the Palestinian cause needs a lot of work to clarify its features. He calls for the mobilization of the Palestinian diaspora, the restoration of the Palestinian cause as a whole, and placing it firmly on the international agenda, not as a conflict zone, but as an occupied state seeking its freedom. This requires great political, media, and security work, and it is a collective national responsibility. Abu Salmiya believes that this mobilization is the safety valve to protect the resistance project. In his opinion, the resistance needs a strong incubator, and there will be no incubator safer than the Palestinian popular incubator. After that, resolving the conflict and getting rid of the occupation becomes only a matter of time.
Abu Salmiya believes that the Oslo Accords were the end of a path that began in the 1970s, and proved its failure in all the stages that preceded and followed it. What is unfortunate from his point of view is the insistence of some Palestinians on it, despite their awareness of the fact that it is a disastrous path for the Palestinian cause. He believes that the Oslo Accords reduced the burdens placed on the occupation and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority, and succeeded in creating an internal Palestinian conflict over the program of resisting the occupation, and the result is what is happening today with the Authority’s project being attached to the occupation. He believes that the relationship between the resistance factions is good, and is developing through the joint room in Gaza and the field unit in the West Bank. As for the political relationship between Hamas and Fatah, it is still tense in light of the divergent political positions and different programs. According to Abu Salmiya, what is required nationally is to consolidate the field relationship between the resistance forces and continue the escalation of resistance work in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza, as it is the guarantor of creating true national unity. Abu Salmiya believes that the PLO is no longer the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and he believes that the goal of emphasizing the representative status of the organization by some is to make it a veto on the birth of any body that includes the Palestinian people inside and outside. He believes that the organization, in its current state, needs to be rebuilt from scratch and revived on national foundations or find another alternative that the Palestinian people can rally around.
Abu Salmiya supports armed resistance, especially since the occupation and the rise of the extreme right do not think of peaceful solutions, and the extreme Zionist right will not achieve for the Palestinian people what the left has not achieved for decades, and therefore rights are seized and not given away, and resisting the occupation militarily is the only guarantee for seizing Palestinian national rights. He also believes in the right of the Palestinians to fully recover the historical land of Palestine with the return of refugees to their homes from which they were displaced. He believes that the Arab situation is living in its most difficult circumstances, and that there is a major Arab decline and retreat at all levels, and the authoritarian Arab regimes believe that normalizing with the occupation provides them with international cover to remain in power, and this official Arab situation, as it is today, is unable to support the Palestinian cause, and does not have the desire to do so. The only solution, according to Abu Salmiya, lies in creating and strengthening the Palestinian popular incubator at home and abroad, and to the extent that the Palestinian can present himself on the regional and international scene, he will find support from his near and distant surroundings, while the peoples are overwhelmed and the most important point they need today is to raise their level of awareness towards the Palestinian cause and protect them from the ongoing attacks of normalization.
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