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Mohammed Khalil Al-Shouli was born in the Rashidieh Palestinian refugee camp in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, on December 8, 1958, to a Palestinian refugee family whose origins trace back to the depopulated town of Sheikh Daoud in the occupied Acre district. He is married and has three sons and four daughters. He studied the basic stage at the UNRWA’s Jiddin Elementary and Al-Naqab Intermediate Schools in Rashidieh Camp, and the secondary stage at Al-Ittihad Secondary School and Tyre Secondary School, from which he obtained his high school diploma in 1978. He obtained a diploma in telecommunications from the UNRWA’s Siblin Center in 1980, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Beirut Arab University in 1984, and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the Lebanese University in 2004. He worked as a teacher of business administration, accounting, and economics in schools in Tripoli, Libya, between 1988 and 1997, then as an English teacher at Al-Haydariya Secondary School in Al-Sarafand between 1998 and 2007, and then as the public relations and media officer at the Palestinian Human Rights Organization (Witness) in 2008. During this time, he participated in preparing several research papers, reports, and studies specializing in Palestinian affairs.
Al-Shouli adopted the national revolutionary thought in his early youth, then the national Islamic thought, and he has a prominent presence in social, educational, political, popular and media activities that support and call for the realization of the rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. He is a member of the General Secretariat of the Conference of Palestinians Abroad since its establishment in 2017, and he also holds the position of head of the popular committees in the Palestinian camps and gatherings in Lebanon since 2007.
Al-Shouli opposes the Oslo Accords, viewing them as an official Palestinian abandonment of approximately 72% of historical Palestine and a relinquishment of the refugees' right of return and self-determination. He rejects negotiations as a means to restore rights and supports resistance as the path to reclaiming rights and holy sites and the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes from which they were displaced. He believes that the division weakens the Palestinian position in the face of conspiracies against the Palestinian cause, and that all Palestinians have a responsibility to work towards ending it. He calls for comprehensive elections leading to the formation of a national unity government, a legislative council, and a national council, which would strengthen Palestinian democracy. He emphasizes that national partnership must be under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) after its course is corrected, particularly its National Charter, and after it is disavowed by the Oslo Accords. He advocates for the inclusion of all Palestinian factions in the PLO, as it is the political entity recognized by the United Nations and represents the moral and political voice of all Palestinians in the homeland and the diaspora.
Al-Shouli believes that resistance in all its forms, especially armed resistance, is necessary to defeat the occupation, and that the Palestinian cause is not just the cause of the Palestinian people, but the cause of the Arab and Islamic nation, as it is the land of messages, prophets and holy sites. He calls for concerted efforts to liberate the land and return it as an essential part of the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Al-Shouli suffered throughout his life; his family was displaced several times from the Rashidieh camp in 1971 to the city of Sidon during the Zionist bombing of the camps. He was arrested and tortured by the occupation in the Atlit and Ansar detention camps between 1982 and 1983. His family was also forcibly displaced during the War of the Camps in 1987 and lost their property. He was deported from Libya and placed with thousands of Palestinians on the border with Egypt in 1997.
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