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Person · Speaker of the Legislative Council; interim president
born 1949
Born in Rafah in August 1949 to a family from Barqa near Isdud, he went to UNRWA schools in Rafah, joined Fateh in 1968 and studied English literature in Damascus. Elected to the Legislative Council for Rafah in 1996, he was its secretary-general, then Minister of Agriculture, and in March 2004 its speaker. On Yasser Arafat’s death in November 2004 he was sworn in as interim president of the Palestinian Authority, until January 2005.
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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.
Sworn in as interim president after his death
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities
document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
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PersonRawhi Fattouh was born in PlaceRafah
Role: Born here: August 1949, Rafah
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: Born in Rafah, Gaza, in Aug. 1949 to a family originally from Borka, near Asdod
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonRawhi Fattouh participated in EventYasser Arafat dies
Role: Sworn in as interim president after his death
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
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)
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.