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Khaled was the older brother of Hani al-Hassan. Al-Hassan was born in Haifa on February 13, His family settled in Sidon, Lebanon , but he left for Egypt. He was briefly detained in Egypt "just for being Palestinian" according to him. After being released, he reunited with his family in Lebanon where he lived briefly. In he formed the short-lived commando group Tahrir Filastin.

A year later he moved to Syria. During this time, al-Hassan worked as a teacher in Damascus and helped found the Islamic Liberation Party in Syrian authorities threatened to arrest him that year for attempting to set up another Palestinian commando group, but he fled to Kuwait. There, he worked as a civil servant, typist, and later as the country's Secretary-General of the Municipal Council Board until He was awarded Kuwaiti citizenship in the mids.

Al-Hassan was one of the original founders of Fatah and in Kuwait, he managed to establish a network of Palestinian activists.

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This, in turn, supplied the PLO with 60 million riyal yearly. From until his death, al-Hassan was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Palestinian National Council and was thus considered the first "foreign minister of the PLO". Al-Hassan authored Grasping the Nettle of Peace in , advocating a Swiss-style confederation in which citizens from Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan would vote according to their canton, hence no recognition of the Arab land captured by Israel in Al-Hassan suffered from cancer since and died from it on October 8, at the age of Contents move to sidebar hide.