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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Nasser Rasmi Katana was born in the village of Al-Nazla Al-Sharqiya in the Tulkarm Governorate on March 20, 1968. He is married and has four children. He received his primary education at Al-Nazla Al-Sharqiya School, his preparatory education at Qaffin School, and completed his secondary education at Baqa Al-Sharqiya School in 1988. He earned a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Damascus University and worked in computer maintenance.
Katana joined the ranks of the Fatah movement in 1982 and was one of its activists at the beginning of the First Intifada. He then joined “Fatah al-Intifada” led by Abu Nidal while studying in Damascus, but he left it and joined the ranks of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command in 1992.
Katana returned to Palestine in 2007, took over security responsibilities in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, and became the director of its office in Ramallah, then assumed the position of the Front’s official in the Tulkarm Governorate.
He was pursued by the occupation forces for three months in 1982, was briefly arrested, then deported to Jordan, and after his return to Palestine he was banned from traveling.
Katana adopts nationalist thought and calls for the liberation of Palestine from its sea to its river, and the realization of the right of return for refugees and compensation.
Katana believes that the life of nations is not measured by time, and therefore we should not end the conflict at the expense of the Palestinian people to achieve personal goals at a specific stage. Many countries were colonized for hundreds of years, but they were eventually liberated.
Katana rejects the Oslo Accords, considering them mere ink on paper. He believes they have achieved only very minor aspects of the Palestinian people's aspirations. He views the division as a great tragedy for the Palestinian people, with the occupation being the sole beneficiary. He insists it must end, national unity achieved, and elections for the Palestinian National Council held outside Palestine with the participation of all factions. He emphasizes that his front has boycotted PLO meetings since 1982 in protest against the withdrawal from Beirut and the late President Yasser Arafat's refusal to relocate to Syria, as advised by the front's Secretary-General, Ahmed Jibril. He calls for the PLO to be rebuilt based on the Prisoners' Agreement and the Cairo Agreement, allowing all factions to join. He believes in resistance in all its forms, including armed resistance, and supports diplomatic resistance as part of the struggle against the occupation.
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