Yahya Hammuda
يحيى حمودة
2nd Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
In office
24 December 1967 – 2 February 1969
Preceded byAhmad Shukeiri
Succeeded byYasser Arafat
Personal details
Born1908
Lifta, Ottoman Empire
Died16 June 2006 (aged 98)
NationalityPalestinian

Yahya Hammuda (Arabic: يحيى حمودة, also transliterated Hamoudeh or Hammouda ; 1908 – 16 June 2006)[1] was the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee from 24 December 1967 to 2 February 1969, following the resignation of Ahmad Shukeiri. He was a veteran activist in Palestinian refugee affairs[2] and a lawyer.[3] He was succeeded by Yasser Arafat.

Hammuda was born in the village of Lifta in 1908. He was a founding member of the General Refugee Congress (GRC). The first congress of the GRC occurred on 17 March 1949 in Ramallah where Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari was elected as President with Hammuda as deputy.[4] The Palestine Conciliation Commission (PCC) hoping to gain a degree of independent Palestinian representation, invited GRC delegates to come and appear before the PCC.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "يحيى حمودة". Archived from the original on 2018-02-15.
  2. ^ Sela, Avraham (October 27, 2014). "The PLO at Fifty: A Historical Perspective". Contemporary Review of the Middle East. 1 (3): 269–333. doi:10.1177/2347798914542326. ISSN 2347-7989 – via Sage Journals.
  3. ^ Rubin, Barry M. (1994). Revolution until victory ? the politics and history of the PLO. Cambridge (Mass.) London: Harvard university press. ISBN 978-0-674-76803-1.
  4. ^ Avi Plascov (1981), "The Palestinian refugees in Jordan 1948-1957" Routledge ISBN 0-7146-3120-5 p 20
  5. ^ Ilan Pappé (1992) “The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-1951” I B Tauris ISBN 1-85043-819-6

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Preceded byAhmad Shukeiri Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 1967–1969 Succeeded byYasser Arafat
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