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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Khader Ibrahim Khalil Kamal was born on November 25, 1973, in Bethlehem, to a family displaced from the village of Malha, southwest of Jerusalem. He is married and has a daughter. He studied primary and secondary school in Bethlehem schools, and worked in hotels and then in the painting industry.
Kamal became involved in national activism early in his life, joining the Communist Party in 1987 through secondary school student committees. He was shot in the thigh with live ammunition during clashes in Bethlehem during the First Intifada. He was arrested by the occupation forces in 1989, interrogated, and then placed under administrative detention. He became the head of the Palestinian People's Party in Bethlehem and later a member of its central committee.
Kamal is active in the popular movement against the wall and land confiscation, and participates in marches organized in this regard in the city of Bethlehem and its villages. He is also active in trade unions and factions through his membership in the General Union of Palestinian Workers, the Public Institutions Workers Union, his presidency of the Construction and Woodworkers Union in the Bethlehem Governorate, and his membership in the Factional Coordination Committee in Bethlehem.
Kamal adopts the democratic approach and leans towards Marxist socialist thought. He believes that the Palestinian people have a right and cannot compromise. He believes that they may experience setbacks, but they will rise up and launch an effort to defeat the occupier. He believes that the Oslo Accords could have been a national lever, but their results were contrary to the aspirations of the Palestinians, especially with the occupation's evasion of implementing its provisions. Nevertheless, it granted the Palestinian people international recognition and the Palestinian leadership a foothold in Palestine. Kamal considers that Hamas's rise to power in the 2006 legislative elections was an opportunity to strengthen the Palestinian people's identity and bolster the internal front to withstand and resist the occupation. However, the division was a great shock and pain, and its repercussions were negative for the Palestinian cause, through increased settlement activity, the Judaization of Jerusalem, the dismantling of Palestinian regional and international relations, the impact on the unity of Palestinian decision-making and geography, the decline of the economic situation, and the imposition of the occupation's siege on the Gaza Strip.
Kamal believes that the Palestinian people and their leadership have the right to use all means to achieve their political aspirations and goals. The practices of the occupation should not be met with roses, but rather with the use of means that force it to leave, including popular and non-popular resistance. He believes that the Palestinian forces and factions were created to liberate the land and the homeland, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, must include all forces in this one house, including the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements. Therefore, it must be reorganized.
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