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Bakr Muhammad Al-Jamal was born in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip on March 1, 1963. He is married and has three children. He studied primary school at Al-Rafi’i School and secondary school at Al-Faluja Secondary School. He obtained his high school diploma from inside the occupation prisons in 1983. He enrolled at the Islamic University in Gaza and obtained a bachelor’s degree in social work from Al-Quds Open University/Gaza Branch in 1999, and a higher diploma in sociology from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in 2002. He worked in administration in trade union institutions and progressed through administrative positions in the Palestinian Workers Union in Gaza until he became a member of the board of directors of the Educational Services Union. He then became a member of the executive committee of the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions between 1996 and 2023.
Al-Jamal joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1980, and was active in the Progressive Student Action Front, the student framework of the Popular Front at the Islamic University in Gaza. He was one of the Front’s leaders in the occupation prisons, and a member of the leadership of the northern Gaza region between (1992-1995), then the head of the Jabalia al-Nazla region between (2011-2014), and a member of a sub-central committee affiliated with the Front in the Gaza Strip between (1996-2016). He was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front during the Front’s seventh conference in 2013, and was elected again as a member of the same position at the Front’s eighth conference in 2022.
Al-Jamal was active in the institutional sector; he was a member of the Education and Vocational Training Policy Committee in Palestine between 1998 and 2000, a member of the Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights between 2005 and 2018, and a member of the General Assembly of the Aisha Association for the Protection of Women and Children since 2009. He participated in several conferences as part of the Popular Front delegation and the General Federation of Trade Unions, such as a conference in Istanbul in 2006 and a conference in Algeria for the Algerian Workers' Party in 2011. He also participated in several workshops in Jordan, Spain, and Denmark. He was also involved in discussions on laws and constitutions that regulate society since the establishment of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996, and he contributed to drafting the Palestinian Labor Law, which was finalized in 2000, and the Social Security Law.
Al-Jamal believes that the Oslo Accords were the culmination of a series of Palestinian concessions and a circumvention of the demand for an unconditional Palestinian state. He considers them a plague upon the Palestinian people, security-oriented in nature, designed to alleviate the burden on the enemy regarding the occupied territories. He believes that national relations are going through their worst historical phase, characterized by unhealthy relations that have weakened the ability to confront the occupation and build a Palestinian economic, social, and political reality that could serve as the foundation for liberation. The Gaza Strip is fragmented, and the West Bank has become vulnerable to settlement expansion, while what is needed is the mobilization of all Palestinian political, social, and economic resources to confront the occupation. He maintains that the only solution for liberation is the complete liberation of historical Palestine, where no other ethnicity or identity exists except for its rightful owners, the Palestinian people. He asserts that all other proposals for liberation have been tried and proven unsuccessful. He emphasizes that the return of refugees to their homes from which they were displaced, with compensation, is the only solution, and the Palestinian struggle will continue until the refugee issue is resolved.
He emphasizes that resistance encompasses several forms, including political and diplomatic struggle, armed resistance, and popular social struggle. All these forms must be coordinated according to the prevailing circumstances. He believes that there is no genuine partnership of any kind within the Palestinian Authority or the PLO. However, he maintains that a true partnership can be achieved by rebuilding the Palestinian political institutions, particularly the PLO, as the primary and fundamental representative body for all Palestinians, both within and outside Palestine. He calls for the development of institutionalized union work, especially since it serves the higher goals of the Palestinian people. He expresses optimism about the future of the Palestinian cause, particularly since the Palestinian people possess capabilities that, if utilized, will lead to progress, development, and victory. He asserts that they are a capable people throughout history, with the will and determination to achieve victory over the enemy.
Al-Jamal believes that the Arab situation after the Arab Spring is fragmented and weak, and is begging the Zionist entity for the survival of official regimes through waves of normalization. All of this is at the expense of the central cause of the Arabs, which is the Palestinian cause. He believes that the Palestinians are contributing in some way to unleashing the Arab regimes on the issue of normalization, especially due to the lack of unity. In contrast, the Arab peoples are still alive and reject normalization, reject relations with the occupation, and are still holding on to the cause of Palestine. The day will come when they will participate in the liberation process and return the country to its rightful owners.
Al-Jamal suffered throughout his life; he was arrested by the occupation between (1981-1983), and prevented from traveling to complete his education. His studies at Palestinian universities were hindered by his arrest between (1984-1988), and he was arrested again in 1989 for a period of one year, and then arrested again in late 1991. The occupation also imposed house arrest on him, and his house was partially bombed during the Al-Furqan War in 2008, and his mother and daughter were injured, and he remained prohibited from traveling through the Beit Hanoun crossing.
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