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APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Hebron- 11 November 2021. Palestinians take part in a ceremony to mark the 17th anniversary of death of late president Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank city of Hebron.

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RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Hebron- 11 November 2021. Palestinians take part in a ceremony to mark the 17th anniversary of death of late president Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank city of Hebron. STORYLINE: The 17th anniversary for the passing of President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar) coincides on Thursday. On November 11, 2004, Arafat died at a French hospital where he was flown to after suffering from a sudden illness following a tight and inhuman Israeli military siege of the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. The late president was born in Jerusalem on August 4, 1929 as "Muhammad Yasser" Abdul Ra‘ouf Daoud Suleiman Arafat al-Kidwa al-Husseini. He was educated in Cairo and participated as a reservist officer in the Egyptian army in fighting the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956. He also joined a group of Palestinian nationalists in the founding of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) in the 1950s. He was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in February 1969 after Ahmad Shuqeiri and Yehya Hammoudeh. On November 13, 1974, Abu Ammar delivered a speech on behalf of the Palestinian people to the UN General Assembly in New York, with which he concluded: “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter‘s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” Following the Declaration of Independence in Algiers on 15 November 1988, the late leader presented at the United Nations General Assembly on 13 and 14 December of the same year a Palestinian initiative for a just peace in the Middle East. The General Assembly was moved at that time to Geneva after the United States had refused to grant Arafat a visa to reach New York. The initiative set the foundation for US President Ronald Reagan to initiate on 16 September a dialogue with the PLO in Tun

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