Hasan Salama
| Hasan Salama حسن سلامة |
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| Born | 1912 Qula, Ottoman Syria |
| Died | 1948 Ras al-Ein, British Mandate for Palestine |
| Allegiance | Palestine's Arab irregular forces |
| Service/branch | Army of the Holy War |
| Years of service | 1936-1948 |
| Battles/wars | 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine |
- For the Palestinian militant who was killed in 1979, see Ali Hassan Salameh.
Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh (Arabic: حسن سلامة, Ḥasan Salāmah) (1945–1948) was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, Arabic: جيش الجهاد المقدس) in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War along with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.
[edit] Biography
Salama was born in the Palestinian village Qula in 1912. Salama was one of the leaders of the armed Arab groups whom fought against the Jews and British during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. After the Arab revolt in Palestine Salama fled to Lebanon, and then fled along with the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini to Iraq.
In November 1941 Salama moved to Nazi Germany with a group of sixty Arab nationalists led by Nazi collaborator Hajj Amin al-Husseini. He returned to the region of Palestine in October 1944 during the covert joint Nazi-Palestinian Operation ATLAS, which was aimed at poisoning the drinking water resources of the city of Tel Aviv in order to kill the 160 thousand Jewish residents of the city. The operation eventually failed and Salama got seriously wounded during the parachuting and took refuge in Jerusalem. Nevertheless, Salama managed to get his injury treated by a doctor in Qula.
The Holy War Army was a force of Palestinian Arab irregulars in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war.[1] The force has been described as Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni's "personal" army.[2]
Salama was a member of the Palestine Arab Party.
At the meeting held in Damascus on 5 February 1948, to organize the Palestinian Field Commands, Salama was allocated the Lydda district (Levenberg, 1993, p. 198).
Salama was killed by the IDF in the battle of Ras al-Ein on 2 June 1948[citation needed]. He was the father of Ali Hassan Salameh.
[edit] References
- Levenberg, Haim (1993). Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine: 1945-1948. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-3439-5
- Massacre in Munich: The Manhunt for the Killers Behind the 1972 Olympics Massacre, Michael Bar-Zohar, Eitan Haber.
- Pappé, Ilan. (1994). The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-51. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781850438199
- Hourani, Albert Habib, Philip S. Khoury, and Mary C. Wilson.(2005). The Modern Middle East: A Reader. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860649639
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