Biography
Salama was born in the Palestinian village Qula in 1912. Salama was one of the leaders of the armed Arab groups whom fought against the Jews and British during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. After the Arab revolt in Palestine Salama fled to Lebanon, and then fled along with the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini to Iraq.
In November 1941 Salama moved to Nazi Germany with a group of sixty Arab nationalists led by Nazi collaborator Hajj Amin al-Husseini. He returned to the region of Palestine in October 1944 during the covert joint Nazi-Palestinian Operation ATLAS, which was aimed at poisoning the drinking water resources of the city of Tel Aviv in order to kill the 160 thousand Jewish residents of the city. The operation eventually failed and Salama got seriously wounded during the parachuting and took refuge in Jerusalem. Nevertheless, Salama managed to get his injury treated by a doctor in Qula.
The Holy War Army was a force of Palestinian Arab irregulars in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war. The force has been described as Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni's "personal" army.
Salama was a member of the Palestine Arab Party.
At the meeting held in Damascus on 5 February 1948, to organize the Palestinian Field Commands, Salama was allocated the Lydda district.
Salama was killed by the IDF in the battle of Ras al-Ein on 2 June 1948. He was the father of Ali Hassan Salameh.
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