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Unidentified gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed Moussa Arafat, a former Palestinian Authority security chief and a cousin of the late Yasser Arafat, at his home in Gaza City before dawn today.
Arafat has been dead for almost 12 years now, but his legacy is very much alive. So long as it is, the dream of peace will remain a distant illusion. ... 2016 21:12 See more on Yasser Arafat ...
After the resignation of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, several key Israeli officials have reached the same conclusion: The time to expel P.A. President Yassir Arafat is fast ...
With Yassir Arafat on Friday described as hanging "between life and death" in a Paris hospital, Palestinian factions debated how to avoid a power vacuum that would undermine national unity.
Friday, Nov 12, 2004. Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah to pay their respects to Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, whose body arrived at the West Bank following a funeral service in ...
Months after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's corpse was exhumed over suspicion that he may have been poisoned, Al Jazeera has published what it says is a 108-page report by the team of Swiss ...
In the autumn of 1974 a young Palestinian was sent to New York to pave the way for Yasser Arafat to make a speech at the United Nations. His name was Nabil Sha'ath. Show more In the autumn of 1974 ...
New York, 5 November 2004 – Press Encounter with the Secretary-General outside Room S-226 in the UN Secretariat Building … Q: Mr. Secretary-General, Yassir Arafat is apparently in a coma. I ...
Monday, Jul 19, 2004. As Gaza slid into near anarchy at the weekend, one image above all seemed to encapsulate the territory's hapless state. It was the sight of masked, gun-toting, hostage-taking ...