Bad Health Runs in the Family

Fathi Arafat, one of ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s brothers, is being treated in a Cairo hospital for terminal cancer, Palestinian sources told AFP.

 

“Fathi Arafat, who is terminally ill with cancer, was brought two days ago to the Egyptian (military) hospital of Wadi al-Nil, following contacts with the Palestinian Authority,” one source said on condition of anonymity.

 

The 67-year-old, whose cancer was diagnosed several years ago, is a trained doctor and was one of the founders of the Palestinian Red Crescent in 1968.