Hani al Hassan (Arabic: هاني الحسن; 1939 – 6 July 2012), also known as Abu Tariq and Abu-l-Hasan, was a leader of the Fatah organization in Germany and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council. Early life Al Hassan was born in Haifa 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. West Germany (Darmstadt and Munich), where he worked through the General Union of Palestinian Students (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,He spent time as a refugee in Yarmouk camp, 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 Jordan briefly in early 1970, then as Salah Khalaf'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, an ambassador to Tehran, 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 Iraq after August 1991, and at Oslo, but returned to Gaza Strip 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