Brother of Arafat dies in Egypt
AFP, Cairo
Fathi Arafat, brother of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died of cancer in the Egyptian capital Wednesday at the age of 67, a Palestinian diplomat here said. A doctor by profession, he was honorary president of the Palestinian Red Cresent Society, of which he was a co-founder in 1968. He had been fighting for his life for some time, and was admitted to hospital on November 2. His death came less than a month after his brother died in a French military hospital outside Paris on November 11. A 1957 graduate of the University of Cairo, Arafat worked for many years in Egypt, Kuwait and Jordan.
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