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Jaber Mutlaq Washah was born in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 13, 1950, to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the village of Beit Afa in the occupied Gaza district. He is married and has two daughters. He studied primary school at Al-Bureij Elementary School and Nuseirat Preparatory School, and secondary school at Khalid Bin Al-Walid School, obtaining his high school diploma in 1969. He received a diploma from the Vocational Training Institute in Qalandia/Jerusalem in 1971, then enrolled in the Faculty of Science at Alexandria University, and obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Basra in Iraq in 1979. He worked as a physics teacher at the Palestine Religious Institute (Al-Azhar) in Gaza City between 1979 and 1985, and was the deputy director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights between 2000 and 2017.
Wishah joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1972, and joined its military wing – the Occupied Territories branch – and became its head in the Gaza Strip. He was one of the leaders of the Palestinian prisoner movement inside the occupation prisons, and one of the first-tier leaders in the Front’s organization, and its representative in the National Leadership Committee in the prison, and a spokesman for the factions in Nafha prison during the 1992 general strike. He was also active in the field of prisoner education, and was the librarian in the Front’s prisons, and followed up from inside his prison on the prisoners’ education file with the Palestinian Ministry of Education.
He practiced creative writing inside the occupation prisons, where he participated with a working paper in the first conference on preparing Palestinian educational curricula, which was entitled “The Palestinian Educational Curriculum Between Reality and Ambition,” and published weekly articles in Al-Quds newspaper between (1995-1999), under the title “Knocks on the Walls of the Tank,” and “What Prisoners’ Letters Do Not Carry – A Breath on the Ember of Memory,” and participated in preparing internal bulletins for prisoners aimed at strengthening their steadfastness, and preparing prisoners to be building elements in their society after liberation.
Active in the institutional field; He has been the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights since 2017, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Women's Development Association since 2013, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hussam Association for Prisoners and Released Prisoners between (2000-2007). He is also a member of the Front Line Defenders organization and has represented the Palestinian Center for Human Rights at a number of local, regional, and international conferences and forums, including regional meetings to prepare for the Durban Conference in South Africa in 2001, the Global Anti-Globalization Forum in India in 2004, the Fifth World Social Forum in Brazil in 2005, the Prisoners' Conference in Algeria in 2012, meetings of the League of Arab States to discuss Israeli violations against prisoners in detention centers, and the Stuttgart Conference in Germany in 2013 to discuss the two-state or one-state solution. In addition, he has participated in meetings of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, especially his participation with a delegation of mothers of prisoners in the Human Rights Council meetings and the delegation's implementation of a tour of community meetings. In France and Switzerland, and the delegation happened to be in Geneva at the time of the Jenin massacre in 2002, and at that time it made an intervention within the Council about the massacre, speaking on behalf of 35 Arab and international organizations.
Weshah participated in receiving the international committees sent by the United Nations to investigate the human rights situation in the occupied territory, such as: the UN mission headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in May 2008, and the Goldstone Committee, which prepared its report on the human rights situation and Israeli crimes in Gaza in 2009. He met with a number of international figures during their visits to the Gaza Strip, including President Nelson Mandela in 1999, the current President of Ireland, Michael Higgins, the leader of the Irish Sinn Féin party, Gerry Adams, several delegations from South Africa, Europe and America, foreign ministers of some countries, a number of UN special rapporteurs, and members of the US Congress who support the Palestinian cause.
Weshah believes that the Oslo Accords dealt a fatal blow to the Palestinian cause because they did not take into account the standards of international law when drafting them, did not put an end to settlement expansion, and excluded the issue of prisoners. Over the following years, its injustice to the Palestinian people has become evident. He believes that the official position of the international community contributed significantly to the Palestinian division because it did not accept the results of the 2006 legislative elections. Had it accepted them, the transfer of power in Palestinian society would have been peaceful. However, the international community exacerbated the tension within Palestine. He believes that there will be no reconciliation unless comprehensive elections are held and their results are recognized locally and internationally, and unless a genuine national partnership is accepted in the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization. He calls for the activation of the PLO, its separation from the Palestinian Authority, and its recognition as the supreme authority.
Weshah calls for the Palestinian social pyramid to be built on four foundations: the independence of the judiciary, the rule of law, a state of institutions, and respect for human rights. He believes that liberation from the occupation is achieved through resisting it in all available forms, especially internationally legitimate armed resistance, leading to liberation and the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state on all of historical Palestine, and the return of refugees to their homes from which they were displaced.
Weshah suffered throughout his life; his high school graduation was delayed due to the 1967 war, and he was arrested by the occupation forces for the first time in 1969. The Egyptian authorities deported him from their territory in his fourth year at Alexandria University in 1977 because of his student activism. The occupation forces arrested him in 1979 for three months, then re-arrested him in the same year for three months, and prevented him from working in government education, and prevented him from traveling, and imposed house arrest on him for fifteen years. He was arrested again in 1985, and sentenced to life imprisonment until he was released on September 9, 1999, following the Wye River talks between the Palestinian Authority and the occupation.
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