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Group Photos: Lifelong warrior -- Yasser
Arafat
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Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat died early on Thursday at a French military hospital outside Paris,
Palestinian presidential secretary Tayeb Abdelrahim announced at the
Muqataa headquarters. (Photo: Xinhua) |
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| French military hospital Percy spokesman
Christian Estripeau announces the death of Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat in Clamart, near Paris Nov. 11, 2004. Arafat died in intensive care
at 3:30 a.m. (0230GMT) at the age of 75. (Xinhua
Photo) |
RAMALLAH, Nov. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat died early on Thursday at a French military hospital outside
Paris, Palestinian presidential secretary Tayeb Abdelrahim announced at the
Muqataa headquarters.
Meanwhile, both Arafat's senior aide Tayeb Abdelrahim
and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat have confirmed the death of the
Palestinian leader.
French military hospital Percy where Arafat had been
under medical treatment said the Palestinian leader died in intensive care at
3:30 a.m. (0230GMT).
Former Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas,
Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Parliament Speaker
Rawhi Fattuh visited Arafat in the French military hospital on Monday.
Arafat, 75, had suffered from a variety of digestive
tract ailments since he had been confined to his Ramallah headquarters by the
Israeli army. He was transferred to the French military hospital on Oct. 29.
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