The head of the Islamic Movement inside Palestine, Sheikh Raed Salah, who was a guest on the program "The Other Side", refused to reveal the name of the Arab official who incited the Israeli occupation to ban the Islamic movement, saying that there are documents that are not yet ripe for disclosure.

Sheikh Salah apologized for responding to a question about the identity of the Arab official, saying only: "I have to apologize for answering. He added that "some tried to tell us clearly and in the dress of advice: your money and the money of Al-Aqsa Mosque, you can pray and go," but "everything in its time is sweet," and that there are Arabs who made their interest linked to the Israeli establishment and not to the Palestinian cause.

Sheikh Salah said in 2015 that an Arab official had incited the Israeli occupation to ban the Islamic movement inside Palestine.

In this context, he criticized the normalization of some Arab countries with Israel, saying, "Everything that clashes with our Islamic, Arab and Palestinian constants is rejected," explaining that holding an Israeli identity card does not mean that he disavows his Palestinian Arab-Arab Islamic extension.

Speaking to the episode (2023/4/14) of the program "The Other Side", Sheikh Salah discussed details related to his struggle for Palestine and Al-Aqsa Mosque, the suffering he suffered in the occupation prisons, in addition to other aspects of his personal life.

He revealed that during his last prison period he was placed in isolation for a full 17 months, during which he was subjected to the most heinous types of torture, and the goal was an attempt to radically kill his psyche and beat him in the mind until he comes out of prison while he is an abnormal human being, stressing that he was subjected to more than one assassination attempt by the occupation, the first of which was in 1998 and then in 2000 and 2010 during the storming of the occupation forces Freedom Flotilla, and confirmed that a member of the Israeli official security services correctly confessed to the owner of an Arab restaurant inside Palestine He was entrusted with one mission, which was to assassinate Sheikh Salah when the ship was stormed, but they killed a lookalike who was a Turkish sheikh.

Hobby drawing

Despite attempts to assassinate and imprison him, the occupation authorities sought to bargain with him, as he offered him more than once to participate in the Knesset elections, and Sheikh Salah revealed that in 2003, when he was arrested with the hostages of Al-Aqsa, a mediator came to them by Israeli intelligence, and told them during their trial that they were required to do three things: to declare their readiness to run in the Knesset elections, and for Sheikh Salah to write about coexistence, and to stay away from the activity associated with Al-Aqsa Mosque, and on the basis of that negotiations will lead to their release from prison. The response conveyed by Sheikh Salah to the mediator was as follows: "Your demands are under our feet."

He also revealed another offer by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who offered him 50 million shekels ($15 million) in exchange for giving up the victory of Jerusalem, but Sheikh Salah continued his activity and defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, saying, "If we cut ourselves off from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, we would cut ourselves off from the Holy Quran, the Kaaba, the Prophet's Mosque and the Islamic Ummah."

On the other hand, the Palestinian sheikh talked about aspects of his personal life, including his talent in drawing, where he says that he draws to express events that passed him while in prison, or to express memories he lived in his childhood.

Sheikh Salah was born in 1958 in um al-Fahm, which he said was a paradise on earth because it contained olive trees, almonds and all kinds of birds, and he grew up in a family of 7 brothers and 3 sisters.