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Arafat's cemetery prepared in Ramallah
www.chinaview.cn 2004-11-11 11:15:15

 
The photo taken on Nov. 10 shows the site chosen as the cemetery for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the southwest courtyard of his Muqata headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee and the Fatah Central Committee held a meeting on early Wednesday and accepted an Egyptian offer to hold funeral for Arafat in Cairo in case of his death before his body was transferred to Ramallah for burial. Subsequently, an engineering team consisted of bulldozers, grabs, cranes and trucks entered the Muqata on Wednesday afternoon and got prepared to build the cemetery.
The photo taken on Nov. 10 shows the site chosen as the cemetery for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the southwest courtyard of his Muqata headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee and the Fatah Central Committee held a meeting on early Wednesday and accepted an Egyptian offer to hold funeral for Arafat in Cairo in case of his death before his body was transferred to Ramallah for burial. Subsequently, an engineering team consisted of bulldozers, grabs, cranes and trucks entered the Muqata on Wednesday afternoon and got prepared to build the cemetery. (Xinhua photo)

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