PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat Dies after Contracting COVID-19
Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the chief peace negotiator for the Palestinians, died of organ failure exacerbated by COVID-19 on Tuesday, November 10. He was 65. Born in 1955 in Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Erekat resided in Jericho, just north of the Dead Sea in the West…