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Palestinians remember Arafat
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Source: CCTV.com | 11-27-2007 09:23
Special Report: Mideast Peace Conference
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A Palestinian boy walks past a graffiti of late leader Yasser Arafat in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Yasser Arafat has not been forgotten by the Palestinians. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets to commemorate the third anniversary of his death.
Some ten thousand Palestinians marched through the streets of Gaza City on Sunday.
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Palestinian boys attend a protest marking the third anniversary of late former President Yasser Arafat's death in Rafah camp in the southern Gaza Strip November 10, 2007. Arafat died on November 11, 2004. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
Most of them were supporters of Fatah, founded by Arafat. They defied a Hamas ban on Fatah supporters rallying. Arafat began the secular Fatah movement in the 1960s. He led the Palestinians fight against Israel before signing an interim peace deal in 1993.
Arafat failed to create a state in territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war but many Palestinians still miss him.
