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Hassan Ahmed Mohammed Al-Ainin, known as “Sultan Abu Al-Ainin,” was born in the Rashidieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon in 1951 to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the village of Sheikh Daoud in the occupied Acre district. He is married and has three sons and five daughters. He completed his primary education in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and then attended university to study business administration. He served as an advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas on refugee affairs in 2010, then as an advisor to the president on NGO and civil society work in 2012, and subsequently as head of the Palestinian Authority's Civil Society Organizations Authority from 2013 until his retirement with the rank of Major General.
Abu al-Aynayn joined the Fatah movement in 1968 and received military training in its camps in Syria between 1968 and 1969. He then joined the Fatah forces in Lebanon and was stationed in Arqoub, and was given the nom de guerre Sultan Abu al-Aynayn. He then moved to the Bint Jbeil area and was with the Palestinian forces in Sidon when the Israeli occupation army invaded Lebanon in 1982. He went to Yemen after the resistance left Lebanon, then returned to it in 1983, in an attempt to restore the Fatah presence in the Palestinian refugee camps there. He managed to enter the Shatila and Burj al-Barajneh camps and defend them, and entered into conflict with some Palestinian forces loyal to Syria, and participated in the defense of the Palestinian camps during the War of the Camps launched by the Amal movement against them between 1985 and 1988.
He assumed the position of Secretary of the Fatah movement in Lebanon between (1991-2009), and was considered the first man in the PLO in Lebanon. He participated in the fourth and fifth general conferences of the Fatah movement, and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement at its sixth conference held in Bethlehem in 2009.
Abu al-Aynayn was subjected to several assassination attempts in Lebanon by his opponents on the Lebanese scene, and he was forced to leave Lebanon for nine years for security reasons. He was forced to stay inside the camp for eight years, after the Lebanese judiciary issued a death sentence against him in 2000 on charges of forming a gang, carrying out assassinations in the nineties of the twentieth century, and possessing weapons. He was acquitted of the charges in 2006. After he entered Palestine for a period, the Zionist occupation prevented him from leaving it for about two years and seven months, and withdrew his VIP card. He was subjected to arrest and interrogation at the Zionist checkpoints in 2016.
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