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Abdul Aziz Muhammad Abu Al-Qaraya was born in the depopulated village of Beit Daras in the occupied Gaza Strip on June 1, 1945. He is married and has six children. He studied primary school at Al-Shuja'iya Preparatory School for Boys, and secondary school at Palestine Secondary School, from which he obtained his high school diploma in 1964. He received a diploma in NGO management from Birzeit University in 1999. He worked as an employee of the Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip between 1989 and 2018, serving as an administrative assistant to the head of the society, then as an administrative director, then as an executive director, and then as the general manager of the society between 2003 and 2018. He also served as an advisor to the board of directors of the society between 2018 and 2019.
Abu al-Qaraya belonged to the Popular Resistance Vanguard, the military wing of the Arab Nationalist Movement, then became a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1967. He was active in planning and implementing its national activities, and was one of its cadres in the occupation prisons. He was elected as a member of its National Conference and its Central Committee between (1993-2013). He was also active within the civil institutions affiliated with the Popular Front, and was one of the founders of the Al-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights and its Chairman of the Board of Directors between (1989-2000), and its Treasurer between (2013-2015), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Health Work Committees between (1990-2000), and Chairman of the Network of NGOs between (2000-2006), and a member of the Palestinian National Action Authority between (2000-2006).
He published the book "The Red Crescent Society: 50 Years of Work, Challenge and Giving" (2019).
Abu al-Qaraya adopts Marxist-Leninist thought. He believes that the Oslo Accords were bad, did not meet the minimum needs of the Palestinian people, did not grant them the right to self-determination, and did not achieve their goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state. He also believes that the agreement caused damage, led to disastrous results, dragged the Palestinian people into internal and geographical division, and allowed Israeli settlements to expand very rapidly.
Abu al-Qaraya believes that the current national relations between the factions are very bad, and are limited and governed by boundaries that do not provoke or conflict with the desires of the ruling authority. The Palestinian reality is generally divided against itself politically and geographically, and this, in his opinion, contributes to the decline of the national struggle and helps the Israeli occupation in its continued aggression against the Palestinian people. He affirms the legitimacy of all available forms of resistance, and that the occupation only understands the language of force, and the Palestinians cannot expel it without resistance. He believes that partnership in the Authority or the PLO is difficult, especially since the head of the Authority is the head of the PLO, and this has strengthened the role of the Authority at the expense of the role of the PLO, which is essentially the unifying and decisive body in the affairs of the factions and national action.
He believes that the Palestinian cause suffers from many problems, the basis of which is the internal Palestinian division and the repeated Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in all places where they are present. He believes that the Palestinian people will overcome this difficult and bitter situation and achieve their legitimate goals and rights, especially since they are a conscious and struggling people, and they will take control of matters and impose themselves on all parties that control their destiny, and they will create a leadership for national action that enjoys their trust and works according to their plan and goals of freedom and independence. The matter is only a matter of time. He believes that the interim solution represented by the two-state solution, which guarantees the establishment of a Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, and the return of refugees to their homes from which they were displaced, is a suitable solution at the present time and meets the aspirations and goals of the Palestinian people. He describes the current Palestinian political system as being closer to a dictatorship, while he describes the Arab situation as historically deteriorating and weak, and governed by the American and European wills. However, he believes that the Arab masses will ultimately triumph over their reactionary governments, and will strengthen their support for the Palestinian people’s resistance instead of the current capitulation and normalization with “Israel” by some Arab regimes.
Abu al-Qaraya suffered under the occupation, as it pursued and wounded him in 1969, then arrested him and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. He remained a prisoner until he was released in a prisoner exchange deal conducted by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command with the occupation authorities in 1985. He was also arrested during the First Intifada in 1988, subjected to harsh interrogation, and placed under administrative detention for a full year, and was prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip several times.
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