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Mohammed Yasser Abdul-Ra'ouf Qudwa Al-Husseini, more commonly known as Yasser Arafat was born August 24, 1929, in the Alquds / Jerusalem. Arafat attended King Fuad University in Egypt where he received a Bachelor Degree in Architecture Engineering in 1951.
In 1958, he left Egypt to Kuwait where he worked as an engineer and met with Abu Jihad ( Khalil Alwazir). In Kuwait, he discussed the idea of establishing "Fatah " the Palestinian National Liberation Movement. He then returned to Palestine and met with a group of Palestinian activists and founded Fatah Movement on January 1, 1965. Arafat stayed in Jerusalem until 1967 before moving to Jordan.
Arafat was elected as Chairman for the Executive Committee of the PLO in 1969 to be the third chairman after Ahmad Shuqeiri and Yahya Hamoda. He still retains that title. In the September 1969 war in Jordan, |
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he moved to Lebanon and remained there until 1982 when in Beirut he resisted the Israeli army for 3 months, with light weapons. After that he left for Tunisia.
In 1987, the Palestinian Intifada erupted in the 1967 occupied territories and lasted until September 13, 1993, when President Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles agreement in Washington with the late Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. On May 4, 1994, Arafat signed the Cairo agreement with Rabin.
On July 1994, he entered Gaza after 27 years in the Diaspora. In 1994, President Arafat was awarded the Nobel peace prize which he shared with the late PM Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.
On January 20, 1995 Arafat was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority with 83% of the vote.
11-11-2004 Arafat has passed away(feethamt ALLAH), Read More http://www.pnic.gov.ps/english/president/english.html |
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