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Salah al-Din Amin Musleh Salah (1914
- August 26, 2004), a Palestinian politician and leader, was born in the
Palestinian city of Tulkarem. He was one of the leaders of the Hittin regiment
in the Arab Salvation Army, and one of the signatories of the Palestinian
National Charter in 1964. He participated in the first Palestinian conference
in 1964 and was a member of the first Palestinian national parliament after the
Nakba, which was known as the Palestinian National Council, in which he
announced the establishment of the Liberation Organization. Palestinian.
his upbringing
Salah al-Din Amin Musleh Salah was
born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm in 1914. He received his primary,
preparatory, and secondary education in the schools of his city, Tulkarm, where
he studied at the Fadhiliya School in the city.
his political life
Salah al-Din Salah was one of the
leaders of the National Committee in Tulkarm and the North after the strikes
and demonstrations in the Palestinian revolution of 1936 turned into an armed
military struggle.
In the forties of the twentieth
century, Ahmed Helmy Abd al-Baqi, general manager of the Arab Nation Fund,
assigned Salah al-Din Salah to assume the position of director of the fund in
Tulkarem and the region.
On November 9, 1939, Salah al-Din
Salah became a member of the Tulkarm Municipal Council headed by Mayor Hashem
al-Jayusi, and continued until he ran on June 15, 1947 for the new elections
held on July 4, 1947, in which he won first place with the number of votes, but
Hashem al-Jayusi took over the mayorship again and was Salah was a member of
the Municipal Council until May 22, 1951.
On May 22, 1951, Salah al-Din Salah
was assigned the position of Mayor of Tulkarem by a decision of the Jordanian
Minister of Interior, and on August 22, 1952 he was elected again to the same
position, so he assumed the presidency of the municipality again from September
29, 1952 until September 29, 1955, and on September 30, 1955, Salah al-Din took
over The presidency of the municipality again and continued until the date of
May 22, 1957.
In the Arab-Israeli war in 1948,
Salah al-Din Salah was part of the command of the Hittin Regiment in the Arab
Salvation Army, accompanied by Amin Ruwiha and others. After the Nakba of
Palestine in 1948, Salah participated in the establishment of the Arab
Nationalists Movement.
Salah al-Din Salah was a member of
the committee for the memorial of Ahmed Helmy Abdel-Baqi, as his memorial
service was held in the city of Jerusalem on August 9, 1963. Among the
committee, accompanied by Salah, were Amin al-Husseini, Wasfi al-Tal, Kamel
Erekat, Awni Abdel Hadi, Fahmy al-Aboushi, Muhammad Abdel Rahman Khalifa, Aref
al-Aref, and Akef al-Fayez. Bahjat Al-Talhouni, Akram Zuaiter, Ezzat Tannous,
Rouhi Al-Khatib, Abdel-Hamid Al-Sayeh, Samir Al-Rifai, and others.
Salah al-Din Salah participated in
the first Palestinian conference held in Jerusalem on May 28, 1964 under the
auspices of the Jordanian King Hussein bin Talal and with the participation of
all Arab countries at the level of foreign ministers. Salah was a member of the
first Palestinian national parliament after the Nakba, known as the Palestinian
National Council, in which he declared About the establishment of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, and Salah was one of the signatories of the
Palestinian National Charter.
his family
His father is “Amin Musleh Salah,”one of the personalities of Tulkarm and Palestine. And his brother is the
Palestinian human rights activist “Abdullah Amin Musleh Salah” (1922-2007), who
was an ambassador to Jordan in a number of countries of the world, a permanent
representative of Jordan to the United Nations, a member of the Jordanian Senate,
and held various Jordanian ministerial portfolios, including minister of
foreign affairs, transportation, For construction and development. As for his
uncle, he is the Palestinian politician “Abd al-Latif Musleh Salah”(1882-1960), who is considered one of the most prominent men of the Palestinian
national movement.
his death
Salah al-Din Salah died in the
Jordanian capital, Amman, on August 26, 2004, at the age of 90.
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