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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Abdul Hadi Saeed Diab Al-Agha was born in Khan Yunis on March 5, 1976. He is married and has two sons and four daughters. He studied primary school at Haifa Mixed School and Abdul Qader Al-Husseini School, and secondary school at Haroun Al-Rashid School. He obtained a BA in Fundamentals of Religion from the Islamic University in Gaza City in 1999, a general diploma in education from the same university in 2000, a master's degree in interpretation and Quranic sciences from the same university in 2005, and a PhD in interpretation and Quranic sciences from the University of the Holy Quran and the Origins of Sciences in Sudan in 2019.
He worked as a teacher in Al-Aqsa Schools affiliated with the Islamic Complex Foundation between (1999-2000), then as a teacher in the schools of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Khan Yunis and Rafah Governorates between (2001-2010), then as Director of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in Khan Yunis Governorate between (2011-2012), then as Director General in the General Administration for Memorizing the Holy Qur’an in the Ministry of Endowments in Gaza between (2014-2018), then he took over the Secretariat of the Ministry of Endowments in 2019, and became Undersecretary of the same ministry since 2019.
He was involved in national activities during the first Intifada, and joined the Hamas movement in 1991. He was active in advocacy and student work, and became the head of the Cultural Committee in the Islamic University Student Council between 1996 and 1998. He was active in implementing national activities during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, and assumed the presidency of the Islamic Bloc in Khan Yunis Governorate between 2000 and 2004. He was a member of the Teacher Bloc in the schools and institutes of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and the head of the Association of Palestinian Scholars in Khan Yunis Governorate between 2005 and 2010.
He published the book Military Theories between Preparation and Planning... An Objective Qur’anic Study (2006), and he has two handwritten books entitled Fortress of the Expatriate, and Human Values in the Stages of Empowerment of the Prophets of God Almighty in the Holy Qur’an (The Lives of Joseph, David, and Solomon, peace be upon them, as a Model).
Agha believes that the Oslo Accords are one of the most dangerous agreements, and he considers them a sin, because they gave the occupation a right to the land of Palestine. He calls on the Palestinians to instill in the minds of their children that the occupation has no right to the land of Palestine, and that not a single inch of its soil should be relinquished. He believes that the division came as a result of the Palestinian Authority’s failure to understand and respect the results of the legislative elections in which Hamas won in 2006, and that its events were an expression of a forced and temporary situation. He holds those who refrained from cooperation and refused to respond to all local and international initiatives that sought to achieve Palestinian reconciliation responsible for its occurrence. He believes in the necessity of ending the division, not entering into any negative conflict between national factions and political movements, and working to achieve national partnership, because in his opinion, there is no meaning to national work without partnership with all components.
Agha believes that the enemy only understands the language of force, and does not respect agreements and peace. What is taken by force can only be restored by force. The world does not respect the weak, but rather the strong. Most contemporary international systems are biased towards the strong, not towards the rightful owner. Agha adheres to the option of liberating Palestine from its river to its sea, and believes that whatever can be restored from the land must be restored. Accordingly, he believes in the gradual process of liberation, and the gradual defeat of the occupation is a logical philosophy and policy that falls within the framework of logic and reality. What is being liberated today must be built upon.
Agha believes that the full return of everyone who left their home is a right that will not be lost no matter how long it takes. He also believes that the right holder is more deserving of it, and that the adults die, but the young are increasingly determined to regain their right, and the occupation must realize this. He believes that the Palestinian system is a democratic system in its philosophy, and that the scope of practice differs from one region to another, and that a final judgment should not be issued on it, and the objective judgment should be after the end of the occupation; because the management of the governmental or public situation is not separate from resisting the occupation, and all parties must believe in the necessity of democratic work, whether in the Palestinian political system or social relations.
Agha believes in the end of the occupation, and that this matter is not far away. In every confrontation that the Palestinian people engage in with the occupation, the occupation’s anxiety and confusion become clear, and what the resistance did in the Battle of the Sword of Jerusalem was evidence of that. Also, the West Bank is at this stage leading a campaign to confuse the enemy, and all these events confirm the imminent end of the occupation, the establishment of the Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital, the liberation of prisoners, and the return of refugees. According to Agha’s reading of history and reality, the occupation will end by the end of this decade.
Agha believes that what happened in the Arab countries is an attempt to restore status, so that these countries have value and status in this world. He believes that the people are alive and seek to liberate themselves from the domination over them, but forces came and conspired against these attempts and directed them in a negative direction, and this is what happened in the Arab countries in which the Arab Spring occurred.
Agha suffered from the occupation; he was arrested by the occupation for a year between 1993-1994, and was arrested by the PA security services in 1998. He was repeatedly arrested and harassed by the occupation and the PA security services, and the occupation forces demolished his house in 2002.
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