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Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat[a] (4 [3][4] or 24 [5][6]: 269 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, [b] was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. [7]
Yasser Arafat's body buried in the Mukaata, which was his compound in Ramallah. Yasser Arafat, who was the President of the Palestinian National Authority and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died unexpectedly on 11 November 2004, 75 years of age, after a short period of illness.
This is a list of international trips made by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat was permanently based in Kuwait until the end of 1964. He traveled extensively to garner international support for the Palestinian cause.
The first film in the series focuses on the legacy of the late President of Palestine, Yasser Arafat.Featuring extensive and personal interviews with the people who knew the leader best, most notably with his wife Suha Arafat, the film chronicles Arafat's life from his birth to his mysterious death in a Paris hospital in 2004.
The Johannesburg address was an address given by Yasser Arafat in a mosque in the South African city of Johannesburg on May 10, 1994, regarding the Oslo Accords, about half a year after the signing of the first Oslo Accords. [1][2][3][4][5] During this speech, Yasser Arafat made several significant statements, notably declaring Jerusalem as the ...
Black September. Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود Aylūl al-ʾAswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, [9] was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970 ...
In Yasser Arafat's 9 September 1993 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as part of the first Oslo Accord, Arafat stated that "The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security." [10] These remarks from Arafat was seen as a shift from one of the PLO's previous primary aims—the destruction of Israel ...
Yasser Arafat was the primary founder of Fatah and its leader until his 2004 death. The Fatah movement was founded in 1959 by members of the Palestinian diaspora, principally by professionals working in the Persian Gulf States, especially Kuwait (then a British protectorate) where the founders Salah Khalaf, Khalil al-Wazir, Yasser Arafat resided.