Fathi Arafat (; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004) was a

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Born in

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, he studied

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from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Egypt,

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and

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. He was a younger brother of Palestinian president

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...

. Arafat became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1967. From 1968 he was also President of Palestine General Union of Physicians and Pharmacists. He served as Chief Delegate for Palestine to the

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from 1982 onwards. From 1992 he was President of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (formerly Palestine Academy for Scientific Research) and President of the Palestine Higher Health Council. Arafat died in Cairo on December 1, 2004, from

stomach cancer Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a malignant tumor of the stomach. It is a cancer that develops in the Gastric mucosa, lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a numb ...

, less than a month after the death of his brother Yasser.

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1933 births 2004 deaths Deaths from stomach cancer Palestinian pediatricians Physicians from Cairo Deaths from cancer in Egypt Presidents of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology {{Egypt-med-bio-stub