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Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh | |
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| Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority | |
| In office June 2007 –May 2009 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Prime Minister | Salam Fayyad |
| Preceded by | Hani Talab al-Qawasmi |
| Succeeded by | Said Abu Ali |
| In office 15 June 2002 –Late 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Hani al-Hassan |
| Succeeded by | Nasser Yousef |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 March 1929 Tantura,British Mandate of Palestine |
| Died | 9 March 2020 (aged 90) |
| Children | 4 daughters and 1 son from his first marriage;1 daughter and 1 son from his second marriage |
| Occupation | Politician,Military strategist,Author |
Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh or Abdul-Razzaq Al-Yahya (15 March 1929 –9 March 2020) [1] born in Tantura,near Haifa,then in the British Mandate of Palestine, [2] also known as Abu Anas,was a Palestinian politician who served as Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
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Al-Yehiyeh trained as a military strategist and served as chief operations officer and then deputy chief-of-staff of the PLA brigade in Syria before 1967. [2] In August 1968,he led an attempt to make PLA Syria brigades more independent of Syrian control,and was made PLA chief-of-staff by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee. But with Syria opposed,he resigned to become military advisor to the PLO Executive Committee from 1969 [3] and chief-of-staff of the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command (PASC) in February 1969.[ citation needed ]
He was reappointed to the PLA as commander-in-chief by the PLO Executive Committee in June 1969. [2] Then when Yasser Arafat took on that role in September 1970,al-Yehiyeh became chief-of-staff of all Palestinian forces. [2]
Due to Syrian pressure,he was replaced in 1971,becoming director of the PLO's political department from 1971 to 1976, [2] He was a member of the PLO Executive Committee from 1984 to 1991. [1] Al-Yehiyeh headed security committees in talks with Israel from 1993 to 1995, [4] including final status talks,and also headed negotiations on Hebron security arrangements and safe passage. [2]
He was appointed as Interior Minister of the Palestinian Authority in June 2002,charged with overhauling Palestinian security forces. [1] [2] [4] He was a member of the three-man delegation to Washington in August 2000.[ citation needed ] He was involved in security talks with Israel,and headed a centralized security apparatus for the Palestinian Authority.
Al-Yehiyeh left the PA cabinet in late 2002,feeling that Arafat had prevented him from making any significant reforms. He published his book Between militarism and politics in 2006, [5] and he was working on publishing a new book about peace negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority PNA and Israel.[ citation needed ]
He was appointed Interior Minister on 15 June 2007.[ citation needed ]