PLO Secretary General succumbs to COVID 19

November 10, 2020

Saeb Erekat, the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), died Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavirus, reports Arab News. He was a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades.

The 65 year old American-educated Erekat was involved in nearly every round of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians going back to the landmark Madrid conference in 1991, when he famously showed up draped in a black-and-white checkered keffiyeh, a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.

Over the next few decades Erekat was a constant presence in Western media, where he tirelessly advocated for a negotiated two-state solution to the decades-old conflict, defended the Palestinian leadership and blamed Israel for the failure to reach an agreement, the report added.

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