Top Palestinian Official Hospitalized in Israel after Contracting Virus
Long-time chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, diagnosed with coronavirus, was being hospitalized in Israel on Sunday after his condition worsened, the Palestine Liberation Organization and his brother said.
The PLO said in a statement that "following his contraction of Covid-19, and due to the chronic health problems he faces in the respiratory system, Dr Erekat's condition now requires medical attention in a hospital."
"His situation is not good," Saber Erekat told AFP, adding that his brother was being taken to the Rabin Medical Center in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, outside Tel Aviv.
Erekat underwent lung-transplant surgery in the United States in 2017.
The 65-year-old has been a key figure in Palestinian politics for decades, often serving as a main interlocutor for foreign envoys and the international media.
He has consistently voiced support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Jerusalem-born Erekat serves as the PLO's secretary-general and remains a stalwart presence in the inner circle of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
There have been 42,490 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the occupied West Bank, including 381 deaths.
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Another lie told by Phillipo. According to COGAT, the Israeli body that administers parts of the West Bank and handles border crossings between Gaza and Israel "The reduction of movements in [the crossing between Gaza and Israel for] medical-humanitarian cases is done in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the region.”
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Is this the same Israel that Erekat accused of spreading the virus?
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Q: Why is bigjohn fearlessly resisting Israel in Koura?
A: Because he could find a place to resist them in in Arida Akkar.
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Is it true that arafat got the hiv from taking too much sausage on both ends?
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ArabDemocrat.com. As if you don't know, years before Arafat came onto the scene who was it, if not the Arab leadership, who on 29th November 1947, refused to accept the establishment of an independent Arab State in Palestine at the side of Israel.
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Phillipo ... yes and in 1947 the Palestinians were right. Some foreign powers deciding to give 55 percent of their land to 33 percent of the population who are mostly newly arrived colonists and many illegally there. Any people would have rejected such proposal. Also it is now clear that the Zionists accepted this proposal as a first step only.
So, the PA cuts off all contacts with Israel, including medical permits for treatment in Israeli hospitals, so they constantly declare, but when it comes to their own PLO chiefs they quickly know exactly what they need to do.
How two-faced can they be.