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Ghazi Abdul Qadir Al-Husseini was born in Baghdad in 1941. He is married and has three sons and a daughter. He completed his primary and secondary education in Egyptian schools, obtaining his high school diploma in 1960. He then went to West Germany to study chemical engineering, but he did not complete his university studies.
He became involved in national work in his early youth, and was active in the General Union of Palestinian Students between (1960-1967). He joined the Fatah movement in 1966, and left his studies after the June 1967 defeat. He went to receive military training on guerrilla warfare in Algeria and Syria, and then went to Jordan. He participated in the Fatah movement’s attempt to find bases for resistance in the West Bank. He crossed the Jordan River and reached the West Bank, and joined the Central Monitoring Apparatus during his presence in Jordan between (1969-1971). He took over the supervision of a number of its branches and was responsible for internal security activity and counter-espionage. He also worked as an escort for Yasser Arafat and was responsible for his wireless communications during the battles of September 1970.
He moved to Beirut in 1971 and worked in the Revolutionary Security Apparatus and the Military Court of Fatah. He specialized in handling files of agents and those suspected of collaborating with the occupation. He was the first Palestinian ambassador to Iran, a post he held from 1979 to 1980. He was responsible for the Mount Lebanon region within Fatah during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and led the resistance against the Israeli invasion in the Souk al-Gharb area. After the Palestinian resistance withdrew from Lebanon in 1982, he went to Tunisia. He briefly served as deputy Palestinian ambassador to Jordan in 1982, after which he was appointed to head the General Directorate of Hajj, Endowments, and Occupied Territories Affairs within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a position he held until his retirement in 2007. He also worked in the Occupied Territories (Western Sector), specifically in the Hebron Committee, from 1982 to 1993, and was elected to the Fatah Revolutionary Council in 1989.
Al-Husseini opposed the Oslo Accords and the PLO's move towards a peaceful settlement.
Al-Husseini suffered under the occupation, as he was a prisoner of it between (1967-1969), and was deported to Jordan in 1969. The Jordanian authorities deported him from Jordan in 1982, then he returned later, and the Jordanian authorities arrested him in 2016 for 36 days on “charges” related to supporting and financing the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and Gaza.
Al-Husseini died in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on December 6, 2023. He was buried there.
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