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Israel / Palestine: Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Chairman of the Palestine National Liberation Organization, United Nations, New York, 1983

Israel / Palestine: Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Chairman of the Palestine National Liberation Organization, United Nations, New York, 1983

Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa (24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was a paramount Palestinian leader.

He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959.