Amin al-Hindi
Amin al-Hindi was a Palestinian politician who served as the intelligence chief of the Palestinian Authority. He was a leader of the Black September militant movement and was suspected of involvement in the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics that resulted in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.
Hindi was born in Gaza City on 9 January 1941 and was actively involved with Yasser Arafat in the Fatah movement that Arafat founded in 1959.
In its obituary, The New York Times described Hindi as one of the organizers of the Black September attack in Munich, in which 11 athletes and coaches who were members of the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Games were taken hostage and murdered in team dormitories on the morning of September 5, 1972, though Hindi never acknowledged his involvement in the attack. Israeli security forces carried out a series of targeted killings of individuals believed to have been involved with the massacre; following the death of Abu Daoud, the Palestinian militant known as the planner, architect and mastermind of the Munich massacre, Hindi is thought to have been the last surviving individual who was connected to the killings.
Israel permitted him to return from exile in the 1990s following the Oslo Accords. He became a senior official in the Palestinian Authority and served as commander of the Palestinian General Security and Intelligence Service until 2005. In that role he had frequent contact with Israeli military and security forces.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that al-Hindi had died at age 69 on 17 August 2010, in Amman, Jordan, due to liver and pancreatic cancer. His body was transported from Jordan to the West Bank where ceremonies honoring him were held at the presidential headquarters of Mahmoud Abbas. His body was then transferred through Israel for burial in Gaza. His Gaza funeral was attended by members of the Fatah Central Committee and the Fatah Revolutionary Council. A procession traveled from his home in the Al-Rimal neighborhood to the Katiba Mosque.