Abd ar-Razzaq al-Yahya

Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh or Abdul-Razzaq Al-Yahya (15 March 1929 – 9 March 2020) born in Tantura, near Haifa, then in the British Mandate of Palestine, also known as Abu Anas, was a Palestinian politician who served as Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.

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. and chief-of-staff of the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command (PASC) in February 1969.

He was reappointed to the PLA as commander-in-chief by the PLO Executive Committee in June 1969. including final status talks, and also headed negotiations on Hebron security arrangements and safe passage. and he was working on publishing a new book about peace negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority PNA and Israel.

He was appointed Interior Minister on 15 June 2007.

Personal life From his first marriage, he had 4 daughters: Jomana, Lina, Roula and Rejwan. After the death of his first wife, he remarried and had a daughter Rana, and a son, Anas.