(10 Nov 2020) An ambulance carrying the body of top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat departed Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the West Bank where he is to be buried with highest honours on Wednesday.
Erekat, a top Palestinian negotiator who helped craft some of the most sweeping bids for Arab-Israeli peace, but was left dismayed by both Israeli resistance to key concessions on land and Palestinian infighting that eroded his people's unity, died November 10 in a hospital in Jerusalem.
He was 65.
The cause was complications from COVID-19, according to his office and family.
He had a heart attack in 2012, and five years later he received a lung transplant in Virginia to treat pulmonary fibrosis.
He announced early in October that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was rushed to the Israeli hospital from his home in Jericho on October 18.
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