Youngest Half-Sister of Late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat Dies

On Saturday, Mervat Abdel Raouf Arafat Al-Kidwa, the youngest half-sister of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, passed away in Egypt, at the age of 70, where she had been receiving treatment, according to Wafa, the Palestinian News and Information Agency.

On its part, Yasser Arafat Organization mourned with deep sorrow the death of Mervat, calling her “the Revolutionary Adult”.

Arafat was the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1996–2004), chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004), and the Leader of Fatah, the largest of the constituent PLO factions.

In 1993, he led the PLO to a peace agreement with Israel. Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994.