Arafat sister dies in Cairo
From correspondents in Cairo 13aug03
YUSSRA al-Qidwa, one of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s sisters, died today following an illness, an Egyptian official said. Qidwa, 77, died in the Palestine Hospital, in the northern Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. She had lived in Egypt since 1994 with her husband Jarir al-Qidwa, who had served as Arafat’s advisor on education. Arrangements were being made with the family to send her body back to the Gaza Strip, where it was expected she would be buried alongside her older sister, Inaam, who died in 1999. Arafat, who has been kept by Israel under virtual house arrest for more than a year and a half at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, had six brothers and sisters.
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