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Event · Diplomacy11 November 2004
Yasser Arafat dies
رحيل ياسر عرفات
Exact day11 November 2004
Ramallah
Yasser Arafat, besieged in his Ramallah headquarters, fell ill in October 2004 and was flown to a military hospital near Paris, where his death was announced on 11 November 2004. He was buried at the muqata’a in Ramallah.
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- PersonRawhi FattouhView relationship evidence ↗
Sworn in as interim president after his death
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities
- PersonYasser ArafatView relationship evidence ↗
Died on 11 November 2004, in Clamart, France
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif)
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His last weeks
From early October 2004, while under Israeli siege, Arafat showed symptoms of an illness that could not easily be diagnosed. On 29 October he was admitted to the Percy military hospital at Clamart, near Paris, where he soon fell into a coma; on 11 November 2004 the hospital announced his death.
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Biography
Editorial paraphrase · enIll under siege from early October 2004; admitted to the Percy hospital near Paris on 29 October; death announced on 11 November 2004.
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His burial
After an official ceremony in France and another in Cairo, his body was brought to Ramallah, where some hundred thousand Palestinians gathered, and he was laid to rest at his headquarters, the muqata’a. In 2012 his body was exhumed to test for polonium poisoning; Swiss experts considered poisoning probable, while Russian and French experts attributed his death to old age.
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- Yasir Arafat ↗
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Biography
Editorial paraphrase · enBuried at the muqata’a in Ramallah; exhumed in 2012, with differing expert findings.
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Yasir Arafat
Biography, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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PersonRawhi Fattouh participated in EventYasser Arafat dies
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PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: was sworn in as interim Pres. of the PA following Yasser Arafat’s death on 11 Nov. 2004 (until 15 Jan. 2005)
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s dates: died 11 November 2004, Clamart
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