Al-Ittihad Club (Nablus)

he club was founded in 1932 in the city of Nablus. Its activity was interrupted for long periods of time due to the conditions that prevailed in Palestine during the British Mandate and because of the Nakba. Activity was renewed on 05/25/1962 AD, when the new founding body of the Al-Ittihad Sports Club held an official first session after the Nakba in Al-Mansheya Park in Nablus to restore sports and cultural activity.

The aim of the establishment was to consider it as a national institution capable of bearing the burdens of the stage to devote social, cultural, sports and scout work on the ground and be a beacon for all the people of the city and even the governorate to guide them, give it from their effort and belonging and give them the spirit of purposeful collective action a spark of hope for a prosperous future armed with the spirit of education Honest patriotism and believers in the inevitability of victory and independence, and everyone agrees on patriotism and the same national thought and in the same path, so everyone decided to establish a sports club under the name of the Union Sports Club.

Among the founders of this idea were Mr. Wasif Kamal, Mr. Mamdouh Al-Sukhun, Rustum Al-Madi, Rifaat Al-Nimr, Akram Zuaiter, Dr. Salah Al-Anabtawi, and many of the people of this country. The club has developed through the years of its tender and became the first address for all activities in sports, culture, scouting and socially. Its committees were active in all fields and culminated in the emergence of the club’s champions on the sporting level and active social work. The club formed a meeting point for all the city’s residents, Muslims and Christians until the Israeli occupation in 1948, and activities in the club stopped until 1952, when activities were restarted.

In 1962 AD, on 5-25-1962 AD, the founding body of the Al-Ittihad Sports Club held a first session in Al-Mansheya Park in Nablus, in the presence of Messrs: Jawad Kamal and Dr. Faisal Kanaan - Rama Joud Allah - Nihad Kamal - Medhat Kanaan - Dawood Al Tawil and Dr. Fouad Al Taher - Waddah Touqan Zahir Arafat - Sherif Halawa - Muhammad Asad and Khaled Al-Abwah - Dr. Faisal Kamal - and Shawkat Kamal, and the club at that time had a strong activity in most sports such as football, basketball, handball, table tennis, athletics, wrestling and boxing ( Among the most important heroes is Abd al-Karim Saad, Jordan's heavyweight champion and Kamel Eran, featherweight champion) and these activities continued after the Nakba.

A preparatory committee was elected in order to restore the club’s activities and a new administrative body was elected. This was done on 7/15/1967. This administrative body consisted of: Nihad Kamal - Secretary of the Secretary - Kamal Zaga - Deputy Secretary - Medhat Kanaan - Treasurer - - Walid Stetia - Deputy Treasurer - Faeq Al Masry, Fouad Al Taher, and Faisal Kamal - Members