Tawfik Tirawi

General Tawfik Mohammed Hussein al-Tirawi (born 15 November 1948, ) is a Palestinian official affiliated with Fatah. He served as the head of Palestinian Authority Intelligence in the West Bank from 1994 to 2008. He led the investigation into the death of former President Yasser Arafat.

Tirawi, the head of Fatah's Commission for Intellectual Mobilization and Studies, was elected to the Central Committee at the sixth Fatah convention in 2009.

Political activism He joined Fatah in 1967 while attending Beirut Arab University. He headed the Lebanese branch of the General Union of Palestinian Students from 1969 to 1971 and in 1970 he was head of the secret Student Office of the Secretariat of Fatah. In 1978 he became a member of the executive body of the General Union of Palestinian Students and a member of the Palestinian National Council. The Syrian security services arrested him on 23 July 1985. He was tortured for four days by the intelligence services and then kept in solitary confinement for months. He was imprisoned in various locations in Syria until his release on 2 November 1989.