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Taysir Muhammad Saleh Nasrallah was born on August 1, 1961, in the village of Al-Nasariya in the Jordan Valley, to a Palestinian family who were displaced in 1948 from the town of Qaqoun in the Tulkarm district, and moved to live in Balata camp east of Nablus in 1963. Nasrallah studied the primary and preparatory stages at the UNRWA school in the camp, and obtained his high school diploma in the scientific branch from Qadri Touqan School in Nablus in 1979. He then joined An-Najah National University in 1980, but he interrupted his studies due to repeated arrests, until he obtained a bachelor’s degree in primary education from Al-Quds Open University in 1996, and then a master’s degree in educational administration from An-Najah University.
Nasrallah worked in the police political guidance department, then he was assigned to work with the special staff of the Nablus Governorate in 1996. He also worked as a part-time lecturer at Al-Quds Open University between 2000 and 2007. Nasrallah progressed in the administrative ladder of the governorate staff until he became its general manager, and then he was granted the rank of assistant deputy in 2018.
He joined the student youth movement at An-Najah University and became one of its prominent members in 1980, playing an active role in volunteer and social work. He joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) forces in 1988, and from there moved to Jordan, where he worked in the Intifada Office, then headed by Abbas Zaki, until he returned to Palestine in 1995.
Nasrallah was a member of the Fatah movement’s Nablus Governorate region between 1996 and 2000, and became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1996, a member of the Fatah movement’s advisory council between 2009 and 2016, and a member of the Fatah movement’s Revolutionary Council since 2016.
Nasrallah worked with others to establish the Yafa Cultural Center inside Balata camp in 1998, and he serves as its chairman. He also served as the head of the Balata Youth Center for two terms, and was a member of the Palestinian Football Association Council and its media spokesperson between 2012 and 2016.
Nasrallah has published his first book entitled The Hunger Uprising and the 1987 General Strike, and he has two books awaiting publication, namely Memoirs of Deportation 1989-1995 and Memoirs of Arrest. He is a figure with a clear media presence in the Palestinian arena, and he has participated in international events such as the “Palestinians of Europe” conference, and in a number of Palestinian dialogue sessions in Cairo and Lebanon.
Nasrallah believes that the Oslo Accords were disastrous from both a political and economic standpoint, that the division is a black page in the history of the Palestinians, and that the solution lies in achieving national partnership through a broad national dialogue in which everyone participates and arrives at a national, political and struggle program, in which resistance is practiced in its various forms according to the political and field conditions and data.
Nasrallah suffered greatly under the occupation. He was arrested in 1980 for 12 days, arrested again in 1983 and interrogated for 43 days, and subsequently arrested several more times, during which he was interrogated. He was also placed under house arrest for six months, which was renewed, and then administratively detained for six months. During this time, a weapon was found in his home, leading to 60 days of interrogation and a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence. In 1988, he was arrested again and deported to Lebanon a year later.
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