Today, Sunday, Sheikh Youssef Juma Salama was martyred during the Israeli occupation aggression in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources from the Gaza Strip announced the martyrdom of Sheikh Salama during a bombing that targeted his house in the Maghazi camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

Sheikh Youssef Salama was born in 1954 in Al-Maghazi camp to a Palestinian family whose origins go back to the occupied town of Beit Tima, from the villages of the Gaza District.

Sheikh Youssef obtained a first university degree in the fundamentals of religion from Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1976, and obtained a master’s and doctorate from the same university.

Sheikh Youssef worked in the field of education in the Gaza Strip between 1974 and 1980, and rose to several educational and administrative positions at Al-Azhar University in Gaza between 1984 and 1994, after which he worked in the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments, reaching the position of Palestinian Minister of Endowments between 2005 and 2006.

Sheikh Youssef Salama was among the preachers of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque for 10 years, extending between 1997 and 2007, and during that period he worked as deputy of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem.

After the Israeli occupation's siege of the Gaza Strip in 2007, the occupation prevented Sheikh Youssef from reaching Jerusalem, and he remained in the Gaza Strip until his martyrdom today, joining the series of prominent Palestinian figures who rose during the ongoing occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip.