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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Ibrahim Muhammad Saleh Dahbour was born in the town of Arraba in the Jenin Governorate on February 8, 1968. He is married and has six daughters. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown schools, graduating in 1986. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and Islamic law from the University of Jordan in Amman in 1996, and a license to practice legal auditing since 1996. He received his master's degree in political planning and development from An-Najah National University in Nablus in 2013. He owns and manages a private auditing firm in Jenin.
Dahbour joined the Muslim Brotherhood during his university studies in 1988, and became involved in its advocacy, cultural and intellectual activities. He was an active student at the university, and he joined the Hamas movement, and was active in its ranks. He participated in the legislative elections in 2006 on behalf of the Change and Reform bloc in Jenin Governorate and won.
Dahbour believes that with time, we are nearing a decisive confrontation with the occupation. This necessitates collective, cumulative action on multiple fronts, involving everyone. Secondly, it requires a concerted Arab and Islamic effort to support the Palestinian people, based on the principle that Palestine is land belonging to all Muslims. This view is bolstered by the decline in international support for the occupation, resulting from the growing recognition among many countries that the Palestinian people are suffering injustice. Dahbour calls for a return to the 2005 Cairo Agreement, which stipulated the revitalization of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) with the participation of all Palestinian factions. At that time, all parties agreed that the PLO should be the political entity that unites everyone, but not in its current form. Instead, a new charter and restructuring are needed. He describes Oslo as the third Nakba for the Palestinians, as it provided security for the occupying power, disregarded the sacrifices and rights of the Palestinian people, and merely recognized the PLO as the representative of the people. He argues that the PLO is simply an administration for the population, bearing the financial burdens of their presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
He considers the Palestinian division a fourth Nakba because it has divided the West Bank and Gaza into two entities politically, geographically, and in terms of security. The occupation is the most pleased with the division, and ending it is linked to a willingness to pay a price related to the occupation. As for what happened in Gaza in 2007, he sees it as a necessary step to address an immediate dysfunction in the Palestinian administrative institution. This is what the Palestinian judiciary in the West Bank said in 2013 when it convicted some of those who caused the division by forming groups operating outside the law, which is what Hamas had said before in 2007. Dahbour believes that any people under occupation has the right to defend themselves, according to international conventions. As for the forms of resistance, he believes they are many and varied, including steadfastness on the land, extracting its resources, not submitting to dictates, building charitable institutions, and direct resistance. But it is not possible to force everyone to adopt one form of resistance, and the framework is broad enough for everyone and not limited to one particular form.
Dahbour suffered throughout his life; he was first arrested by the occupation in 1984, and his arrests continued until 2019. He spent more than six years in Zionist prisons, and he has been banned from traveling by the occupation for a long time.
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