1. Hasan Salama was a Palestinian Arab nationalist guerrilla leader and commander who led the Palestinian Holy War Army in the 1948 Palestine War along with Abdul Qadir al-Husseini.
18 Facts About Hasan Salama
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Hasan Salama was one of the leaders of armed Arab groups who fought against British authorities and the Yishuv.
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Hasan Salama planned and led a number of successful operations against the British mandatory forces and the Yishuv.
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In 1938 Hasan Salama was wounded when he blew up a train on the Lydda-Haifa line.
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When he was in Damascus, Syria in 1939, according to British records, Hasan Salama "approached indirectly" the British and offered his services to round up his past comrades.
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In Iraq Hasan Salama had graduated the Military College at Baghdad together with other Army of the Holy War commanders including Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni and 'Abd-al-Rahim Mahmud.
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Hasan Salama supported Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and led a group of 165 Palestinian fighters.
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Hasan Salama participated in the Rashid Ali coup of 1941 and the subsequent Anglo-Iraqi War.
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Hasan Salama followed the grand mufti al-Husseini to Nazi Germany and became his senior aid and a virtual covert operative of the Germans.
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Hasan Salama took a German wife and went through commando and sabotage training, and served a member of a special commando unit of the German foreign intelligence organization Amt VI.
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Hasan Salama participated in Operation ATLAS: on the night of October 6,1944, Salama and four other commandos parachuted from a German Heinkel HeS 3 into mandatory Palestine over Wadi Qelt.
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Hasan Salama had retrieved Nazi arms that had been hidden in the Egyptian desert during WWII, and on December 8,1947, used them to attack Tel Aviv's Hatikva Quarter.
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Hasan Salama was partially successful in organizing militia of five hundred men from the armed groups active in Jaffa, though some joined "only nominally".
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At a meeting held in Damascus on 5 February 1948, Hasan Salama was removed from Jaffa by the Military Committee of the Arab league and his assignment to the Lydda district was reconfirmed.
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Hasan Salama was not harmed, however his escape was deemed "disgraceful".
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However Hasan Salama returned to the destroyed building, retrieved the equipment and established his new command headquarters at Yehudia village.
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Hasan Salama was injured in the battle of Ra's al-'Ayn and died on 2 June 1948.
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Hasan Salama was the father of Ali Hassan Salameh, chief of Black September and the man chiefly responsible of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics.