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Yasser Arafat's widow helped facilitate channel between Hamas, US to free Edan Alexander - report • May 12, 2025, 1:08 PM ET (Jerusalem Post)
Palestinian leader Abbas names likely successor in bid to reassure world powers • Apr. 27, 2025, 2:50 AM ET (The Indian Express)

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Also Known As Muḥammad ʿAbd ar-Raʾūf al-Qudwah al-Ḥusaynī • Yāsir ʿArafāt
Born August 24, 1929? • Cairo? • Egypt
Died November 11, 2004 • Paris • France
Founder Fatah
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1994)
Role In two-state solution

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