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Arafat's brother dies of cancer in Cairo
www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-02 03:04:50

   CAIRO, Dec. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Fathi Arafat, brother of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died of stomach cancer here Wednesday, Egyptian news agency MENA reported.

   The 73-year-old Fathi, former head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, had been fighting the cancer for months in the Egyptian capital, said one of his relatives.

   A doctor of a hospital in Cairo, where Fathi was being treated,said he died at home.

   His death came within a month after his brother Yasser Arafat died in a French military hospital on the outskirts of Paris onNov. 11 and was buried in the West Bank city of Ramallah the next day.  Enditem

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