{{Short description|Palestinian physician (1933–2004)}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL | name = <!-- defaults to article title when left blank --> | image = Fathi Arafat.jpg | alt = Fathi Arafat | caption = Fathi Arafat in 1986 | birth_place = Cairo | death_place = Cairo | alma_mater = Cairo University | occupation = Physician, founder of Palestine Red Crescent Society | relatives = Yasser Arafat, Khadija Arafat | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Fathi Arafat''' ({{langx|ar|فتحي عرفات}}; January 11, 1933 &ndash; December 1, 2004) was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society.<ref>{{cite web |title=ʿArafāt, Fatḥi 1933-2004 |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67z29r0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122061322/https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67z29r0 |archive-date=22 November 2020 |publisher=SNAC}}</ref> Born in Cairo, he studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Egypt, Kuwait and Jordan.<ref>{{cite news |date=2004-12-01 |title=Fathi Arafat, el hermano menor de Arafat |trans-title=Fathi Arafat, the younger brother of Arafat |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/12/01/obituarios/1101934454.html |work=El Mundo (Spain) |agency=EFE |lang=es}}</ref> He was a younger brother of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.

Arafat became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1967. From 1968 he was also President of Palestine General Union of Physicians and Pharmacists.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 December 2004 |title=Fathi, le frère de Arafat, inhumé au Caire |trans-title=Fathi, Arafat's brother, was buried in Cairo |url=https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/488025/Fathi%2C_le_frere_de_Arafat%2C_inhume_au_Caire.html |work=L'Orient–Le Jour |language=fr}}</ref> He served as Chief Delegate for Palestine to the World Health Organization from 1982 onwards. From 1992 he was President of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (formerly Palestine Academy for Scientific Research) and President of the Palestine Higher Health Council.<ref name="LeMonde">{{cite news |date=3 December 2004 |title=Décès du frère cadet de Yasser Arafat |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2004/12/03/p-deces-du-frere-cadet-de-yasser-arafat-p_4303401_1819218.html |work=Le Monde |language=fr |agency=AFP, Reuters}}</ref>

Arafat died in Cairo on December 1, 2004, from stomach cancer,<ref name="LeMonde"/> less than a month after the death of his brother Yasser.<ref>{{cite news |last=Darwish |first=Adel |date=6 December 2004 |title=Dr Fathi Arafat |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-fathi-arafat-677534.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629231701/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-fathi-arafat-677534.html |archive-date=29 June 2011 |work=The Independent |department=Obituaries}}</ref>

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