Hasan Salama

Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh (حسن سلامة, Ḥasan Salāmah) (1912–1948) was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, Arabic: جيش الجهاد المقدس) in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War along with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.

Biography


Salama was born in the Palestinian village Qula in 1912. Salama was one of the leaders of the armed Arab groups who fought against the Jews and British during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. After the Arab revolt in Palestine Salama fled to Lebanon, and then fled along with the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini to Iraq.

He came back to Palestine in October 1944 as a member of the Operation ATLAS commando. Despite the failure of the operation and an injure at the foot, he succeeded in espcaping in taking refuge at Qula.

The Holy War Army was a force of Palestinian Arab irregulars in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war. The force has been described as Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni's "personal" army.

Salama was a member of the Palestine Arab Party.

At the meeting held in Damascus on 5 February 1948, to organize the Palestinian Field Commands, Salama was allocated the Lydda district.

Salama was killed by the IDF in the battle of Ras al-Ein on 2 June 1948. He was the father of Ali Hassan Salameh, chief operation of Black September and responsible of the Munich massacre in 1972.