The tragedy of “Saleh Musa” a Palestinian prisoner who was in solitary confinement for 6 years.
According to Al Jazeera, “Saleh Sobhi Dawood Dar Musa” is a Palestinian prisoner of war and a member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades who was released in a recent prisoner exchange between the Zionist regime and the Palestinian Authority forces. He was born in 1964 in Ramallah province. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a young man and then became a member of Hamas and its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
The Zionist regime arrested him in 2003 following his anti-Zionist activities and sentenced him to 17 life sentences.
Saleh completed his primary education in his hometown and received a diploma in religious studies from Khaduri College in Tulkarm in 1983. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Al-Quds University in 2021.
Intellectual orientation
In his early youth, Saleh had a close orientation to the Muslim Brotherhood and participated in the group’s religious and union activities. These actions led him to join Hamas at the beginning of its establishment. Then he joined the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the movement’s military wing, and participated in the planning and execution of several anti-Zionist operations.
During the Second Palestinian Intifada, he founded a group called the Qassam Brigades Beit Laqiya, which was responsible for the operation at the Hilal Yafi cafe in Jerusalem on September 9, 2003. As a result of this operation, carried out by Ramez Fahmi Abu Salim, a member of Qassam, nine Zionists were killed and dozens of others were injured.
The group carried out another operation on the same day at the bus station in the Sarafand area near the city of Ramla, whose main perpetrator was Ihab Abdel Qader. This operation also killed 8 Zionists and injured dozens of others.
These operations were carried out as a result of the Zionist regime’s attempt to assassinate Ismail Abu Shanab, a Hamas leader, and an attempt to assassinate Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Hamas movement.
Saleh Musa was a teacher of religious sciences and Islamic education in several public schools in the West Bank and also worked as a preacher in one of his village mosques. The Zionist regime removed him from these positions a year later. He was first arrested in 1991 and was repeatedly arrested thereafter until he was finally arrested for the fifth time on September 17, 2003, and sentenced to 17 life sentences on charges of membership in the Al-Qassam Brigades and planning two anti-Zionist operations in which 16 people were killed in these two operations.
During his interrogation, the Zionist regime also arrested his wife twice to put pressure on him, and the Zionists demolished his house without issuing an evacuation warning to his family members. During his captivity, his parents and wife died and he was unable to visit them. Saleh’s two children, Islam and Muhammad, were also arrested, and other family members were not allowed to visit him in prison. He spent a total of 6 years in solitary confinement.