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Hassan Salameh is one of the leaders of the Arab armed groups who fought against the Jews and the British during the Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936–1939.
Hassan Salameh was one of the leaders of the Holy Jihad Army in the 1948 war. He was born in the village of Qula, in the Lydda district in 1912. He participated in the bloody Jaffa demonstrations in 1933, and the British Mandate forces chased him, so he sought refuge in the villages calling on their people to revolt.
He listens to the explanation of Hassan Salama, commander of the central western region of the Holy Jihad Army, and the photo is inside a shelter at his headquarters in the Raja Building near the city of Ramle. This photo was published in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Musawwar on 12/1/1948.
Salameh on horseback with a rifle during the 1936 revolution
Hassan Salameh was the commander of the Fedayeen forces in the Ramleh area, east of Jaffa. He accompanied him in the struggle in the battle of Ras al-Ain, in which the fighter Jumaa Youssef Abdel-Jalil (Abu Youssef), Fayez Hassan Salem (Abu Hassan) and Issa Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Hadi (Abu Ziyad) were martyred. He took the village of Abbasiya as his center, and was helped by Mahmoud Darwish and (Hussein Hammad) in that.
He planned and led a number of successful battles, and was wounded in his left lung, in the battle of Ras al-Ain, northwest of Jerusalem, while leading a sweeping counter-attack on the centers of the Zionist terrorist gangs on May 31, 1948, and he was taken to the hospital and his men continued fighting the enemies until they were expelled from Ras al-Ain. Salameh on June 2, 1948.
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