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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Rami Khamis Al-Shaqra was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Khan Younis Governorate on February 24, 1979, to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the occupied city of Jaffa. He is married and has three sons and three daughters. He attended Sheikh Jamil and Ahmed Abdel Aziz primary schools and Haroun Al-Rashid secondary school, from which he obtained his high school diploma. He earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic Education from Al-Quds Open University in 2005, a bachelor's degree in Police and Legal Sciences from Al-Awda College in 2012, and a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Al-Quds Open University in 2020. He then enrolled at the Islamic University to pursue a master's degree in International Relations. He worked as a director in the Ministry of Interior in 2017 and has served as the director of the Palestine Institute for Strategic Studies since 2018.
Al-Shaqra belonged to the Fatah movement at the beginning of his life, but he switched to the Hamas movement in 1992. He was active in student work, and became a member of the General Administrative Body of the Islamic Bloc for two electoral terms between (2003-2006). He was chosen as the head of the Islamic Bloc in the universities of the southern Gaza Strip between (2005-2006), then as the head of the Islamic Bloc in Khan Yunis Governorate, then as a member of the Board of Directors of the Palestine Institute for Strategic Studies between (2015-2018), then as the head of the Board of Directors since 2018. He is a member of the Palestinian 15 Million Assembly, which is an international assembly that includes Palestinians around the world.
Al-Shaqra was a member of the Political Planning Committee emanating from the Legislative Council between (2015-2019), and was active in union work through his membership in the Board of Directors of the Khan Yunis Association for Rehabilitation and Training in 2007, and his membership in the Board of Directors of the Khan Yunis Youth Sports Club between (2012-2014).
Al-Shaqra published many political and security articles, the most important of which are: Social change towards the tribal dimension and its impact on Palestinian civil society, The crisis of the absence of the Palestinian national project, Palestinian security companies operating in the West Bank: A new challenge to the Palestinian resistance, The phenomenon of espionage in Palestine: Between the constant and the changing, Israeli intelligence work in light of artificial intelligence, and Ramon Airport and the challenges of the future.
He participated in preparing position papers including: Public Affairs Management as a front for rebuilding the Palestinian political system, Restoring the relationship with the Syrian regime and Hamas: motives and outcomes, scenarios for responding to the recent Israeli aggression, and evaluating the media and political discourse of the resistance factions, in addition to his participation in more than 100 Palestinian discussion panels and workshops and a number of Palestinian national conferences.
Al-Shaqra adopts the national Islamic thought and what it defines in terms of proximity to and distance from the liberation of Palestine. He believes that the relationship with all Palestinians is complementary, and that the only enemy is the occupation. He also believes that the Islamic reference is the main motivation for the liberation of Palestine, and that love of homelands is part of faith.
Al-Shaqra rejects any settlement with the occupation, no matter what it is, and believes that the relationship with the occupation is one of contradiction, and that the Palestinian should not offer any solution to the occupier. He believes that Oslo was an agreement between two parties in crisis: the PLO after its departure from Lebanon, and the occupation as a result of the First Intifada. He believes that the agreement harmed the cause, as many countries turned away from the Palestinian cause, including influential countries such as China and India, and this gave the occupation an opportunity to deal with the Palestinian people alone.
It is believed that the division is not new, as it dates back to an early period of the occupation of Palestine. It is seen as a division between two political orientations, each of which holds a different ideology (settlement/resistance), and each side rejects the other. However, in the field of resistance, the division is not real, as in every battle that the people wage against the occupation, the extent of their unity and cohesion becomes clear.
Al-Shaqra supports national partnership in the PLO and calls for its restructuring on the basis of genuine democracy and the nature of the renewed forces in the Palestinian arena, and not on the principle of power-sharing, with the need to restore the organization’s status as the legitimate representative of the people and the principle of its founding based on the liberation of Palestine. He believes in resistance using all its legitimate means to expel the occupation and ensure the return of refugees to their homes from which they were completely displaced. He believes that the proposed solutions to the Palestinian issue are ineffective at this time, especially since the Zionist project does not accept these solutions. In his view, the only solution lies in granting the Palestinian people self-determination and establishing a Palestinian state on all of Palestine. He believes that the Palestinian political system does not represent the aspirations of the people, as it is divided and under occupation, and cannot function except after liberation and on national and democratic foundations. He believes that the Arab situation is going through a bitter reality, which is revealing for the Palestinian cause. Only free people stand with and support this cause. He views the future of the Palestinian cause through the Palestinian's awareness of the reality he lives in amidst the major changes, and he calls for the necessity of seizing the moment, which is a suitable opportunity to achieve many of the people's interim goals. He believes that all the major trends and transformations in the world are working in favor of the Palestinian cause, and are preparing the Palestinian environment for achieving something important, in addition to the weakness of the internal Israeli environment. All of this is an opportunity to organize matters and achieve Palestinian unity on the principles of nationalism and Palestinian unity for the sake of liberating Palestine.
Al-Shaqr suffered under the occupation, as he was arrested between (1997-2001) while he was a high school student. During his imprisonment, he participated in the 1999 general strike, and he is also prohibited from traveling abroad.
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