Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian people and head of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 till his death. In November 2004 the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, underwent health deterioration and was taken to a hospital in Paris. After long days there in a state of clinical death, Arafat’s death was officially announced on 11 November 2004. The funeral ceremony was held in Cairo and immediately thereafter he was brought to Ramallah for burial in the Mukata compound on 12 November. In the picture—a woman laments the death of Arafat.