Saturday 16 November 1996 - 2:00 AM 4234 0 Leading Figures, All Images |
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat releases a white dove during independence day celebrations in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah November 16, 1996. Arafat, who proclaimed statehood in Algiers on November 15, 1988, said that Israel was delaying its Hebron pullout in an attempt to abandon accords sign with the PLO.