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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Khader Ahmed Ismail Al-Mashayekh was born in Amman in 1971 to a Palestinian family originally from the destroyed village of Beit Nattif in the occupied Hebron district. He studied primary school at the UNRWA schools in the Nazzal neighborhood, and secondary school at Abdullah Siraj School, from which he obtained his high school diploma in 1987. He obtained a BA in Doctrine and Da'wa from the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Jordan in 1993, and a higher diploma in political science from the same university in 1995. He worked as a journalist for Al-Rabat newspaper between 1992-1994, and worked as a researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies between 2002-2007. He participated in establishing the Jordanian Al-Boussola Agency in 2009, and in establishing the news department at Hayat FM Radio. He founded Al-Yarmouk Satellite Channel in 2011, and became its director.
He prepared a number of studies specializing in the affairs of prisoners and martyrs, and he has a book entitled “Free People in a Time of Defeat” (2007), and he participated in preparing a number of documentary programs, including the documentary “The Unknown Fate,” which was shown on Al Jazeera in 2008.
Al-Mashaikh was involved in efforts to support the Palestinian cause, and his activities focused on the files of prisoners and martyrs and breaking the siege on Gaza. He participated in the convoys to break the siege on Gaza between 2009 and 2014, including the “Lifeline” and “Freedom Flotilla” campaigns. The occupation forces arrested him during his participation in the “Freedom Flotilla” convoy for 48 hours in 2010, and issued a decision to prevent him from entering Palestine. He participated in a conference for the Palestinian community in Italy in 2006, and in an international conference on prisoners in occupation prisons held in Algeria in 2010. He has been a member of the General Secretariat of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad since 2017, and participated in various committees specialized in Jordanian prisoners in occupation prisons, and headed the Committee of Families of Palestinian and Jordanian Detainees in Saudi Prisons since 2019.
The sheikhs believe that the settlement process has failed, and that the Palestinian people are united on the option of resistance, and divided on peaceful solutions. He also believes that the days have proven that the option of resistance was able to expel the occupier from Lebanon and Gaza and is capable of liberating the land, while the peaceful option did not curb the crimes of the occupier, whether killing, building settlements, or storming Al-Aqsa. He believes that the division is caused by the difference in programs among the factions, and the interference of countries in managing Palestinian affairs. The solution, in his opinion, lies in agreeing on a national program in which the various factions participate, far from the interference and conditions of the occupation or the surrounding countries.
He believes that all resistance tools are legitimate, whether armed, popular or peaceful, as long as this does not give legitimacy to the occupation on the ground, and that the partnership between the PLO factions and the Palestinian resistance factions must be built on the fusion of all factions in the PLO, so that this would be a prelude to the unified Palestinian project against the occupation, which the Palestinian, wherever he is, can market and defend. He also believes that the resistance project is heading towards resolving the conflict and overthrowing the occupation in points, especially with the clear decline and defeat of those who adopt liquidation solutions, and the progress of the resistance project through the signs on the ground, especially in the West Bank, and the emergence of a new generation inside the occupied territories that rejects the occupation, and the development of armed resistance in Gaza.
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