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Haidar Muhi Al-Din Abdul Shafi was born on June 10, 1919, in Gaza City. He was married and had three sons and a daughter. He received his primary education in Gaza, his secondary education at the Arab College in Jerusalem, graduating in 1936. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine degree at the American University of Beirut in 1943 and specialized in surgery at The Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, USA, in 1949. He worked as a physician at the municipal hospital in Jaffa and as a physician in the Second Battalion of the Jordanian Arab Army in 1944. He then opened a private clinic in Gaza City and also worked at Tel Al-Zuhur Hospital in Gaza City in 1954. He was appointed Director of Health Services in the Gaza Strip in 1957.
During his university studies in Beirut, he joined the nationalist-oriented Urwa al-Wuthqa Association and contributed to the popular effort to confront the Zionist occupation of the Gaza Strip between (1956-1957). He was chosen as the head of the Legislative Council in the Gaza Strip between (1962-1964), and was a member of the first Palestinian conference in Jerusalem in 1964. He became one of Ahmed Shuqairi’s assistants and a member of the first Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization for a year.
He was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces in 1967, then deported to the Nakhl area in Sinai for three months in 1969, followed by a second deportation to Lebanon in 1970.
Abdel Shafi participated in the founding of the Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip in 1972 and managed it until 2005. He contributed to the founding of the Palestinian National Front in 1973 and the National Guidance Committee in 1978. He headed the Committee of Public Figures in the First Intifada in 1987, headed the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, and led the Palestinian negotiating team in the Washington negotiations between 1992 and 1993.
He won the legislative elections in 1996 and headed the political committee in the Legislative Council. He stood with the Second Intifada that broke out in 2000, but he rejected the manifestations of armed resistance (“militarization”), and called for the formation of a unified leadership for the Intifada. He contributed to the founding of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement in 2002 and was appointed its Secretary-General.
He held administrative positions in a number of associations such as Al-Maqasid Charitable Society, the Arab Intellectual Forum, the Center for Democracy and Workers’ Rights, the Palestinian NGO Network, and the Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University.
Abdel Shafi was known as a dissenting voice against official Palestinian policies, both regarding the internal administration of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, and the mechanisms for confronting the occupation. He resigned from the Legislative Council in protest against its inaction in addressing corruption, its failure to uphold the principle of separation of powers within the Authority's institutions, and the encroachment of the executive branch. Some held him partly responsible for the tension that strained relations between the Palestinian left and Islamists in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s and 80s. He was also criticized for advocating that the confrontation with the occupation be limited to popular resistance, excluding the use of weapons, and for his involvement in the peace process.
He died in Gaza on September 25, 2007.
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