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Hanna Mqbel was a Palestinian journalist, writer, and trade unionist who served as the general secretary of Arab Journalists in Cyprus.

Early life
He was born in 1939 in the village of Al-Tayyiba in Palestine. He studied and worked in Jerusalem. He joined Fatah and was one of the first to publish a Palestinian newspaper. He contributed to the establishment of unified Palestinian media.

After the assassination of Kamal Nasser, Hanna Mqbel took over as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Palestine Revolution" in Beirut, which represented the voice of Palestinian resistance in Lebanon.
He was elected general secretary of the Union of Arab Journalists on behalf of Palestine in 1979 and re-elected for another four years in 1983. He was one of the founders of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists and served as the secretary-general of the union's general secretariat until 1980.

Assassination
Hanna Mqbel was assassinated in Nicosia on May 3, 1984.

Tribute and commemoration
A grand symbolic funeral procession took place in his hometown of Al-Tayyiba. A street in Al-Tayyiba was named after him.
On August 4, 2015, President Mahmoud Abbas awarded him the Golden Medal for Excellence and Merit.