RAMALLAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Mr Saeb Erekat, who died on Tuesday at the age of 65, weeks after being hospitalised with Covid-19, was the Palestinian veteran negotiator and politician who shepherded relations with world powers for decades.
In 2015, as a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks erupted, Mr Erekat blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies for the violence. In recent years, he served as secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation , and was a stalwart presence in the inner circle of Mr Abbas.
On Oct 9, the PLO announced he had contracted Covid-19, and on Oct 18 he was admitted to Israel's Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital.Mr Erekat was a long-time architect of negotiations aspiring to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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