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Hani al Hassan (
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: هاني الحسن; 1939 – 6 July 2012), also known as Abu Tariq and Abu-l-Hasan, was a leader of the Fatah organization in
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and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council.


Early life

Al Hassan was born in
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Palestine, in 1939. He is one of the founding members of Fatah, the biggest faction of the PLO, and the first Palestinian ambassador to Iran, following the revolution. During the 1970s he led the indirect negotiations between the PLO and the United States. Although opposed to the Oslo agreement, al Hassan was appointed by Arafat as the Minister of Interior. Following the collapse of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations at Camp David in 2000, Hani Al Hassan remained with Arafat and following the death of Arafat, Al Hassan accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat. He originally studied engineering in the late 1950-60s where he organized an Islamist slate, Shabab al Aqsa, to compete in student elections. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in early 1950s.
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( Darmstadt and
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), where he worked through the
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(GUPS) in Europe, and acted as Fatah's main Europe link after he merged his own commando group to Fatah in 1963 until 1967. He also served as President of GUPS from 1962. He is the younger brother of
Khaled al-Hassan Khaled al-Hassan ( ar, خالد الحسن also known as Abu Said ar, أبو السعيد) (1928-1994) was an early adviser of Yasser Arafat, PLO leader and a founder of the Palestinian political and militant organization Fatah. Khaled was the ...
,He spent time as a refugee in
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, near Damascus,


Political career

Al Hassan returned to Gaza in 1995 and began to act as the head of Foreign Relations in Fatah and a political adviser to Arafat. He served as regional head in
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briefly in early 1970, then as
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's deputy in Rasd, along with being a central committee leader during this time period. Beginning in 1974, he acted as a political aide to
Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...
, an ambassador to
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, and became an ambassador to Amman in 1982. He retains good ties to the Gulf States. He became a member of Fatah-Central Committee in May 1980. He was critical of the leadership's stance towards
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after August 1991, and at Oslo, but returned to
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in November 1995, and became the chief political adviser to Arafat as well as PLO-CC member & head of the Palestinian National Council foreign relations committee. He was appointed Interior Minister on 29 October 2002. Mahmoud Abbas attempted to drop him from the PA cabinet, and despite Arafat's resistance, he was replaced in April 2003. He is slated to act as Arafat's national security adviser. Al Hassan was head of Fatah's Bureau of Mobilisation and Organisation and (maktab at-ta`bia wat-tandhim) until April 2007, when he was replaced in that role by Ahmed Qurei. Al Hassan went on to become a National Security Adviser but was dropped by Mahmoud Abbas in June 2007, following his comments made on
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. Following
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in June 2007, Hassan caused a major row in Fatah by giving an interview on Al-Jazeera in which he said that there had been no conflict between Hamas and Fatah but rather a conflict between loyal Palestinians in both camps and a small minority in Fatah who were preparing a coup to overthrow Hamas with American backing. He made it clear that he was referring essentially to the followers of
Muhammad Dahlan Mohammad Yusuf Dahlan ( ar, محمد دحلان) born on September 29, 1961 in Khan Yunis Camp, Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Fadi () is a Palestinians, Palestinian Politics of the P ...
. Hassan's statement was quickly rebutted by an official Fatah spokesman who portrayed Hassan as endorsing a Hamas coup."The war within Fatah" – Al-Ahram


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hassan, Hani al- Fatah members 1939 births 2012 deaths People from Haifa Palestinian refugees Government ministers of the Palestinian National Authority Ambassadors of the State of Palestine to Iran Ambassadors of the State of Palestine to Jordan Palestinian expatriates in Germany Central Committee of Fatah members