Saeb Erekat

Also known as Saeb Iriqat, Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat

Palestinian diplomat (1955–2020)

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Iran
Active from: 1987-02-26

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“Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.”

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Preceded by: Yasser Abed Rabbo
Succeeded by: Hussein al-Sheikh
Majority: 31,501
Prime minister: Ahmed Qurei
President: Yasser Arafat
Born: Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat , ( 1955-04-28 ) 28 April 1955, Abu Dis , Jordanian-administered West Bank, Palestine
Died: 10 November 2020 (2020-11-10) (aged 65), Jerusalem
Party: Fatah
Spouse: Neameh Erekat ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 3 September 1981</span>"}]]}'>1981 ; died 10 November 2020</span>"}]]}'>2020 )
Relatives: Noura Erakat (niece), Yousef Erakat (nephew), Ahmad Erekat (nephew)
Alma mater: City College of San Francisco , San Francisco State University , University of Bradford

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Image: Saeb Erekat December 2014.jpg
Number of children: 4

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date of birth: 1955-04-28
date of death: 2020-11-10
nickname: شيطان أريحا
pseudonym: أبو علي
name in native language: صائب محمد صالح عريقات
date of burial or cremation: 2020-11-11

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Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (also Erikat, Erakat or Arekat; Arabic: صائب محمد صالح عريقات, romanized: Ṣāʾib ʿUrayqāt, Palestinian Arabic: ʿRēqāt; 28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020. He served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He participated in early negotiations with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government. He reconciled with the party and was reappointed to the post in September 2003. Erekat died in the Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem of complications from COVID-19 on 10 November 2020, at the age of 65.

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