- Title: VARIOUS: PALESTINIAN AND ISRAEL RESPONSE TO YASSER ARAFAT'S DEATH
- Date: 11th November 2004
- Summary: (W2)RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (NOVEMBER 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF SENIOR AIDE TO ARAFAT TAYEB ABDEL RAHIM ENTERING NEWS CONFERENCE 0.16 2. SCU SOUNDBITE (Arabic) TAYEB ABDEL RAHIM, SENIOR AIDE TO ARAFAT, SAYING: "Our brother president Yasser Arafat has passed away at 4:30 this morning. Yasser Arafat has closed his eyes in this world and his soul has
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- Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK / GAZA CITY, GAZA / JERUSALEM
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA83EKA02DB8BBUFUW58Y0RVDGE
- Story Text: Palestinians and Israelis react to announcement of
Arafat's death
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat died early on
Thursday morning (November 11) at a hospital outside Paris,
Tayeb Abdel Rahim a senior aide told reporters in the West
Bank town of Ramallah.
Arafat, 75, suffered a brain haemorrhage on Tuesday
(November 9) at the French hospital where he was flown from
the West Bank on Oct. 29 and had lain in a coma.
Arafat is hated by many Israelis after years of
conflict in the Middle East but Palestinians regard him as
a symbol of the struggle for an independent Palestinian
state.
Arrangements were being hastily made on Wednesday
(November 10) for a funeral in Cairo and burial at his West
Bank headquarters.
Earth-moving equipment set to work digging up the
grounds of Arafat's shell-shattered compound in Ramallah,
which was to be turned into a shrine to the icon of
Palestinian nationalism.
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