Yasser Arafat

/ 20 February 2024

Tasks Mandela set remain unfinished business

It is 30 years since Nelson Mandela gave his inaugural address that spoke of oppression in the past and hope for the future

By Ayesha Omar

Thought Leader

/ 21 November 2023

Why I marched for Palestine

Protests and other actions for human rights matter, and collectively there is much we can do

By Zubair Sayed

Opinion

/ 2 September 2021

Israel must not have a place at the African Union until it ends its occupation of Palestine

The AU Commission chairperson’s decision to accept the credentials of Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia undermines the anti-colonial values that underpin the AU

By Hanan Jarrar

Article

/ 27 April 2018

Handshakes that shook the world

When the leaders of North and South Korea reached across the Military Demarcation Line to shake hands, they symbolically united the peninsula

By Agency

Article

/ 27 November 2012

Arafat’s body exhumed to find cause of death

The body of Palestine’s late leader Yasser Arafat has been exhumed by a team of international experts trying to discover if he was poisoned.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 24 August 2012

Swiss lab to analyse Arafat remains for poisoning

A Swiss radiology lab said it has received the go-ahead from the widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to test his remains for poisoning.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 4 July 2012

Arafat’s body may be screened for poisoning

The Palestinians are ready to accept a medical examination of the body of former leader Yasser Arafat if his family agrees.

By Sapa Afp

Article

/ 7 January 2012

Palestinian officials ‘ignored’ in Tunisian Hamas talks

A visit by Gaza’s Hamas leader has angered official Palestinian representatives in Tunisia who say they were ‘ignored’ during the talks.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 16 December 2011

International arrest warrant against Arafat’s widow lifted

Tunisia has decided to lift an international arrest warrant for alleged corruption issued against Suha Arafat, widow of the former Palestinian leader.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 2 April 2008

Palestinian businesses look east to China

Faced with Israeli trade and travel restrictions, a stagnant economy and a flood of cheap imports from Asia, Palestinian businessmen are increasingly seeking their fortunes in China. Demand for Chinese visas among business owners in the occupied West Bank is so high that the Chinese consul regularly visits the city of Hebron to stamp their passports.

By Wafa Amr

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Article

/ 4 March 2008

Report: US plotted to overthrow Hamas

The Bush administration, caught out by the rise of Hamas, embarked on a secret project for the armed overthrow of the Islamist government in Gaza, it emerged on Monday. Vanity Fair reports in its April edition that President George Bush signed off on a plan for the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to remove the Hamas authorities in Gaza.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 4 March 2008

Who is the shortest world leader?

Until Monday there was little argument about the holder of the coveted title of shortest leader in the world: at 162cm, or a shade over five feet three inches, Kim Jong-il, supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army and Great Leader of the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea, stood head and shoulders below the rest of the field.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 13 November 2007

Hamas rounds up Fatah activists after Gaza violence

Hamas has rounded up scores of Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip following a rally that drew more than 200 000 supporters and ended in gunfire that killed seven people. The assembly on Monday, marking the third anniversary of the death of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was the biggest held by President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group in Gaza.

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi

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Article

/ 12 November 2007

Gunfire kills six at Fatah rally

Gunfire killed at least six people and wounded 80 on Monday at a Fatah memorial rally for Yasser Arafat attended by hundreds of thousands of supporters of the defeated faction in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The rare Fatah rally broke up in chaos after gunfire rang out.

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi

Tasks Mandela set remain unfinished business

Why I marched for Palestine

Israel must not have a place at the African Union until it ends its occupation of Palestine

Handshakes that shook the world

Arafat’s body exhumed to find cause of death

Swiss lab to analyse Arafat remains for poisoning

Arafat’s body may be screened for poisoning

Palestinian officials ‘ignored’ in Tunisian Hamas talks

International arrest warrant against Arafat’s widow lifted

Palestinian businesses look east to China

Report: US plotted to overthrow Hamas

Who is the shortest world leader?

Hamas rounds up Fatah activists after Gaza violence

Gunfire kills six at Fatah rally

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