Yasser Arafat’s brother dies of cancer

Fathi Arafat, the brother of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, died today. He was 67.

Arafat died at 5.20pm at the Palestine Hospital in Cairo, where he had been receiving treatment for stomach cancer, said Mae Arif, spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, a Muslim version of the Red Cross. Arafat, a physician, was the hospital’s director.