Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after contracting the coronavirus. He spent most of his life in the occupied West Bank town of Jericho, a palm-studded desert oasis about 30 minutes from Jerusalem. Then, as now, the Palestinians sought an independent state in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Erekat accompanied Arafat's body on the flight back to the West Bank for burial. A small group of Israelis protested against the hospitalization of Erekat at the Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem.

Source: CBC News November 10, 2020 13:18 UTC