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Jan Grarup RAPHO / Newsweek
"Yassir Arafat's Funeral"


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A girl is helped down frow one of the walls surrounding the Mukata (Arafat's headquarters). Several thousand grieving Palestinians bid farewell to their leader, Yassir Arafat, when he was laid to rest at his Ramallah headquarters on the westbank. Thousands of grieving Palestinians gathered for the funeral of Yassir Arafat at his headquarters in the westbank town of Ramallah. After an unidentified illness, Arafat was given permission to travel to Paris for medical treatment. He had previously been under houses arrest since the start of the recent Intifada. When his body finally arrived home for his funeral, tens of thousands gathered around the Mukata - Arafat's and the Palestinian Authority's headquarters.
 

 

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