On November 11, 2004, President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar) was martyred after a 3-year siege and aggression imposed on his headquarter in Ramallah in the West Bank. The late President was born on August 4, 1929, in Al-Quds. His full name was Mohammed Yasser Abdel-Raouf Dawood Suleiman Arafat Al-Qudwa Al-Husseini. He studied engineering at King Fuad I University in Cairo. As a reserve officer, he served in the Egyptian army during the Tripartite Aggression in 1956. Early in his life, he participated in the rise of the Palestinian national movement and in the foundation of Fatah in the fifties. He became its official spokesperson in 1968. He was elected President of the PLO in 1969.  In October 1985 he survived an Israeli shelling that targeted Hamam Al-Shat in Tunisia. By 1987, Arafat started directing the first Intifada that broke out in Palestine. In 1993, he signed Oslo Accords with Yitzhak Rabin, occupation’s former prime minister, in the White House. On September 13, he was to return to Palestine. On January 20, 1996, Arafat was elected President of the PA. After Camp David negotiations had failed, Al-Aqsa Intifada erupted on September 28, 2000. Several troops and tanks surrounded the President’s headquarter accusing him of directing the Intifada. The forces raided several cities in an operation they called ‘Defensive Shield’. The siege continued leaving the President with limited space that lacked the basic requirements for human life.