on this eleventh day of November 2004, the symbolic president Yasser Arafat "Abu Ammar" was martyred.
On this occasion, he commemorates the Palestinian people in the various regions of their presence, at home and abroad, the anniversary of his departure with various national activities, such as stops, marches, festivals and others, most notably at the presidential headquarters next to his mausoleum in Ramallah, where candles will be lit, in which leaders and factions of national action and companions of the martyr´s path will participate Besides hundreds of citizens.
Abu Ammar passed away under difficult internal and external conditions that our people and their cause of liberation are still suffering from, as a result of the occupation, aggression and the continuous Israeli siege .. martyrs, wounded, thousands of militants languish in prisons, rampant settlements, demolishing homes and dismembering the homeland.
The date of the eleventh of November of every year will remain a painful memory to remember a late leader who waged a liberation struggle for our national cause for decades, and faced countless military and political battles for it, until it ended with his martyrdom in 2004, after an Israeli siege and aggression. It lasted for more than three years for its headquarters in Ramallah.
The various stages of the national struggle, since the start of the contemporary revolution, have benefited from the great sophistication of the leader and symbol Yasser Arafat, his will and his steadfastness in the face of all challenges, as he turned many setbacks into victories recorded by history and which future generations will remember for a long time.
As such, the martyr Yasser Arafat was absent in his body from Palestine, but his legacy of struggle is still firmly rooted in the people and its leadership.
The late President "Abu Ammar" was born in Jerusalem on August 4, 1929, and his full name is "Muhammad Yasser" Abd al-Raouf Daoud Suleiman Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. .
The deceased studied at the Faculty of Engineering at Fouad Al-Awal University in Cairo, and since his youth, he participated in the resurrection of the Palestinian national movement through his activity in the ranks of the Palestine Students´ Union, which he later assumed the presidency.
The deceased also participated with a group of Palestinian patriots in founding the Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fatah" in the fifties, and became its official spokesman in 1968, and was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in February 1969, after Ahmed Al-Shugairi and Yahya Hammouda occupied the position before that.
In 1974, Abu Ammar delivered a speech in the name of the Palestinian people, before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, at which point he said his famous sentence: "I came to you carrying the revolutionary rifle in one hand and an olive branch in the other hand, so do not drop the green branch from my hand."
As commander-in-chief of the joint leadership of the Palestinian revolution forces and the Lebanese national movement, Abu Ammar led during the summer of 1982 the battle against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, and he also led the battles of steadfastness during the siege imposed by the invading Israeli forces around Beirut for an 88-day period that ended with an international agreement requiring the exit of Palestinian fighters. From Medina, when journalists asked Yasser Arafat the moment he left across the sea to Tunis on a Greek ship about his next stop, he replied, "I am going to Palestine."
Leader Yasser Arafat and the leadership and staff of the PLO were guests of Tunisia, and from there he began to complete his tireless steps towards Palestine.
On October 1, 1985, Yasser Arafat narrowly escaped an Israeli raid that targeted the "Hammam Shat" suburb in Tunis, and led to the deaths of dozens of Palestinian and Tunisian martyrs and injuries. By the time of 1987, matters began to break out and become active on more than one level. After reconciliation was achieved between the rival Palestinian political forces in a unifying session of the Palestinian National Council, Arafat began leading wars on several fronts. He was supporting the legendary steadfastness of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon, directing the stone uprising that broke out in Palestine against the occupation in 1987, and waging political battles at the international level in order to enhance recognition of the Palestinian cause and the fairness of their aspirations.
And after the declaration of independence in Algeria on November 15, 1988, on the thirteenth and fourteenth of December of the same year, in the United Nations General Assembly, the Palestinian Peace Initiative was launched to achieve a just peace in the Middle East. The General Assembly then moved to Geneva due to the rejection of The United States granted him a travel visa to New York, and this initiative was based on the decision of the US administration headed by Ronald Reagan on the 16th of the same month, to initiate a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization in Tunis as of March 30, 1989.
In 1993, Yasser Arafat and the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the "Oslo" Declaration of Principles agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Government of Israel at the White House on September 13, under which Yasser Arafat headed the PLO staff back to Palestine.
On January 20, 1996, Yasser Arafat was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority in general elections, and the process of building the foundations of the Palestinian state began since that time.
After the failure of the Camp David negotiations in 2000 as a result of Israeli intransigence and Yasser Arafat’s keenness not to compromise Palestinian rights and violate their fundamentals, the Al-Aqsa Intifada erupted on September 28, 2000, and occupation forces and tanks surrounded Arafat in his headquarters, under the pretext of accusing him of leading the uprising, and overran several cities in the process. It called it "the protective wall," and kept the siege applied to it in a narrow space that lacks the minimum conditions for human life.
