Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat dies at 65
Erekat played various roles in the Palestinian movement, serving as a top aide to Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, and a legislator and cabinet minister
10 November 2020 - 14:09
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, a fixture in on-again, off-again peace talks with Israel over the course of three decades, died on Monday without realising that goal. He was 65 and had been battling Covid-19.
Erekat spent his last weeks in an Israeli hospital in Jerusalem, a city he had laboured long and unsuccessfully to partition to establish the capital of a Palestinian state there. His condition was complicated by a lung transplant in 2017...
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