Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died mysteriously on November 11, 2004. Ten years on, images of the man whom some still consider ‘the symbol of Palestine’ continue to proliferate in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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In death as in life, Yasser Arafat has loomed large over the Palestinian people and their protracted search for a homeland. Abbas Momani/AFP Photo -
A Palestinian supporter of Yasser Arafat, sits at his shop next to a portrait of the late Palestinian leader on November 3, 2014, in Ramallah. Abbas Momani/AFP Photo -
When he died in 2004, Yasser Arafat was the president of a moribund Palestinian Authority, an interim body set up in 1994 which was to have handed power to a permanent government by 1999. Hazem Bader/AFP Photo -
‘It was Arafat who was the first to take the painful decision to recognise the 1967 lines and abandon 78 per cent of historic Palestine and open the way to coexistence,’ said Xavier Abu Eid, spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Abbas Momani/AFP Photo -
Yasser Arafat embodied the Palestinian struggle and fought against Israel before becoming a partner in the largely fruitless peace process. Mohammed Abed/AFP Photo -
Palestinians are unanimous in their belief he would not have allowed the violence between Fatah and Hamas in 2007, which saw the Islamist movement ousting their rivals from Gaza and the establishment of two separate administrations. Hazem Bader/AFP Photo -
A Palestinian in Ramallah wearing a keffiyeh, similar to the one worn by Yasser Arafat, has a pin with the portrait of late Palestinian leader. Abbas Momani/AFP Photo
Remembering Yasser Arafat, the symbol of Palestine - in pictures
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