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Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), wearing the keffiyeh, 1996.
Yasser Arafat founded Fatah, a political and military organization, in 1959. He established the group while working as an engineer in Kuwait, alongside associates including Khalil al-Wazir, Salah Khalaf, and Khalid al-Hassan.12