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Huda Khamis Aliyan was born in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the depopulated village of Hiriba in the occupied Gaza district, on July 13, 1958. She is married and has a son and a daughter. She completed her primary education at Al-Shati School and her secondary education at Mustafa Hafez High School, graduating in 2003. She then enrolled in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at Al-Azhar University.
She became involved in mass national work, especially among women, and joined the ranks of the Democratic Front in 1981. She was a member of the leadership of the Gaza region between (1983-1990), and participated in the activities of the First Intifada. She joined the Palestinian Democratic Union Party - FIDA in 1992 after its split from the Democratic Front. She was elected as the head of the Women’s Action Union within FIDA in 2000, and became a member of FIDA’s Central Committee in 2007. She was then chosen as a member of its Political Bureau between (2011-2019), and a member of the National Council in 2017. As for her institutional participations outside the party, they were represented by her membership in the Administrative Council of the General Union of Palestinian Women in 2005, and her presidency of the Women’s Action Association for Securing Women and Children since 2006.
She led a group of women who pressured the Legislative Council to approve a women’s quota within the council in 2006, and she participated in coordinating women’s campaigns to end the Palestinian division in 2011 in partnership with women’s institutions, unions, human rights organizations and political parties. These campaigns continued until 2016, when the Beach Agreement was signed.
It adopts a national, democratic, socialist political program, believes in social justice and equality, and is committed to ending the occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state. It rejects the Oslo Accords because they failed to meet the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. In its view, the accords led to a decline in the feminist movement and political parties, which negatively impacted the struggle and diminished the national understanding of the struggle. It believes that the Palestinian division is a major source of pain and a primary cause of the destruction of all aspects of life, including the Palestinian political system. It calls for developing and renewing the political system to serve all Palestinians and for unifying everyone under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization after reforming it through democratic elections.
It believes in resisting the occupation through popular means, as it is the most effective and successful way to resist it. There is a need for armed resistance in certain circumstances imposed by the occupation. It adopts the two-state solution, without giving up the full right of return for Palestinian refugees to the lands of Palestine in 1948. It believes that the Palestinian cause is still an international issue, and Gaza is the heart of the national struggle. It is necessary to appeal to all international powers to stand with the Palestinian people and expose the practices of the occupation. It calls for action to boycott Arab countries that have normalized relations with the occupation and to boycott the products of the occupation. It also calls for holding an international conference to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
She suffered throughout her life; she was summoned by Israeli intelligence in 1987, prevented from traveling several times, and her sister Wafa was assassinated by the occupation during the First Intifada.
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