Yahya Hammuda
Yahya Hamoudeh was the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee from 24 December 1967 to 2 February 1969, following the resignation of Ahmad Shukeiri. He was succeeded by Yasser Arafat.
Hamoudeh was born in the village of Lifta in 1908. A founding member of the General Refugee Congress. The first congress of the GRC occurred on 17 March 1949 in Ramallah where Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari was elected as President with Yahya Hamuda as deputy. The Palestine Conciliation Commission hoping to gain a degree of independent Palestinian representation, invited GRC delegates to come and appear before the PCC.Footnotes
