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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Arafat museum recovers Nobel prize from Hamas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA relative of Yasser Arafat says the Hamas terror group has returned the late Palestinian leader’s 1994 Nobel Peace Prize to the Palestinian government in the West Bank.
Nasser al-Qidweh, Arafat’s nephew, says that the medal will be among dozens of Arafat’s belongings to be displayed in a new museum opening in Ramallah on November 9. Qidweh is president of the Arafat Institute.
Arafat shared the Nobel prize with then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and -foreign minister Shimon Peres for reaching the 1993 Oslo interim peace agreement.
Arafat died in 2004, and three years later many items at his Gaza headquarters were lost when the rival Hamas group seized control of the territory.
Al-Qidweh says the only missing piece that Hamas has returned is the medal.
— AP
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