Biography
Issa, the son of a well-to-do Palestinian farmer, was born in 1947. His father died when he was two years old. The family's properties were confiscated by the newly founded state of Israel, and they were forced to relocate to the Deheishe Refugee Camp.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest. The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel's economic and technological center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although the state's sovereignty over Jerusalem has only partial recognition.
Despite the harsh conditions in which he lived and his violent surroundings, Issa became a nonviolent activist in 1970.
Issa graduated from Bethlehem University in 1980, with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work and a Diploma of Education.
Bethlehem University is the first university founded in the West Bank. Established under Israeli rule in 1973, the university traces its roots to 1893 when the De La Salle Christian Brothers opened schools in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Nazareth, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.
In 1984 he founded the Al-Amal Child Care Center. The center later evolved into the Hope Flowers School, the only school in Palestine to teach the philosophy of peace and democratic education.
Hussein Ibrahim Issa died of a heart disease at the age of 52 in an Israeli hospital.
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Events in the year 1937 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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