JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) – Saeb Erekat, a prominent Palestinian spokesman for decades, passed away on Tuesday after being diagnosed with COVID-19, a senior member of his Fatah party said. He was 65.
Erekat was also secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a member of its most powerful faction, Fatah.
He was a proponent of a two-state solution of the conflict with Israel and a profound critic of its settlement policy on occupied land that according could destroy prospects for a viable Palestine.
Erekat confirmed on October 8 that he had been infected with the coronavirus.
He was rushed from his home in the West Bank city of Jericho to Hadassah Medical Center in Israel last week.