US EditionFormer Palestinian delegate to France Leïla Shahid dies age 76
Leïla Shahid was the first female Palestinian diplomat abroad and served as envoy to France and the European Union, widely recognized for her advocacy for Palestinian statehood.
- Leila Shahid, former Palestinian diplomat and envoy, died on Wednesday at age 76, her sister Zeina told AFP, `She died today`; her body was found in La Leque, southern France.
- French investigators have opened an inquiry in La Leque after finding Leïla Shahid's body, with initial findings indicating an apparent suicide and reported illness over several years.
- Shahid built a long diplomatic career as the PLO's first female envoy, serving in Ireland in 1989, representing Palestine in France from 1993 to 2006, and as general delegate to the European Union from 2006 to 2015 while directing The Review of Palestinian Studies.
- Senior Palestinian diplomats including Hala Abou-Hassira, Majed Bamya and Hussam Zumlot paid tribute, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas praised Shahid as a model diplomat faithful to her people's message.
- She was with Yasser Arafat in his final days and helped open diplomatic channels during pivotal moments, while her tenure coincided with the second intifada in 2000 and last year she hailed France's recognition of a Palestinian state.
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For thirty years she was the face and voice of the Palestinian cause in France. A vibrating and striking incarnation. Her charism and authority were dying the screen. Leila Shahid died
DISPARITION - The former delegate general of Palestine in Paris and Brussels, a lawyer passionate about the two-state solution, died at the age of 76.
A woman of leadership and dialogue, inhabited by her cause, but sensitive to all injustices, the former representative of Palestine in France and to the European Union, who ended his days Wednesday, 18 February, at the age of 76, was much more than a diplomat.
Former Palestinian diplomat Leila Shahid has died at the age of 76. For a long time, she was the face of the Palestinian cause in several European countries, including the Netherlands. In 1989, Shahid became the first female PLO diplomat abroad when she was appointed envoy to Ireland. Shortly thereafter, she traveled to the Netherlands to become the PLO representative. Shahid was born in Beirut, where her parents had moved as Palestinian refugee…
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