Fathi Arafat, the brother of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, died Wednesday. He was 67. Arafat died at 5:20 p.m. at the Palestine Hospital in suburban Cairo, where he had been receiving treatment for stomach cancer, said Mae Arif, spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Arafat, a physician, was the hospital’s director. In New York City, Arafat’s nephew, Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, mourned his death. “He was not only an uncle but he was a friend, a personal friend I think,” al-Kidwa said. Arafat had been suffering from stomach cancer for about four years and has had two operations in the past three years. Last month, a hospital official said the cancer had spread throughout his body. Full Story
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