Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh or Abdul-Razzaq Al-Yahya (March 15, 1929 – March 9, 2020)[1] born in Tantura, near Haifa, then in the British Mandate of Palestine,[2] 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.

But with Syria opposed, he resigned to become military advisor to the PLO Executive Committee from 1969[3] and chief-of-staff of the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command (PASC) in February 1969.

[citation needed] He was reappointed to the PLA as commander-in-chief by the PLO Executive Committee in June 1969.

Al-Yehiyeh left the PA cabinet in late 2002, feeling that Arafat had prevented him from making any significant reforms.