May 31, 2001

According to Orient House in occupied Jerusalem, condolences for the tragic death of Faisal Husseini can be sent as follows:

For written condolences please send faxes to +(972-2) 627-1265, 627-4020, or 628-8765

or email condolences@orienthouse.org. For the most current updates please visit www.orienthouse.org

Other information about the life and death of Faisal Husseini follows.

Ali Abunimah
www.abunimah.org

31 May 2001

Funeral Arrangements for the Faithful Son of Jerusalem,
The Martyr Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini

Friday, 1 June 2001

10:30 a.m. the body will be flown to Ramallah where President Yassir Arafat will hold an official mourning ceremony in the Governorate for approximately two hours.

12:30 p.m. the convoy will move from Ramallah to Jerusalem.

1:15 p.m. the convoy will stop for one minute at his house in Shu’fat before moving on to the Orient House.

1:30 p.m. the convoy will arrive at the Orient House where his body will be laid in his office in order to allow people to pay their final respects.

3:00 p.m. the funeral procession will proceed to the Haram Al-Sherif via Salah Addin Street to Sultan Suleiman Street, through Damascus Gate, down Al-Wad Street and will enter the Haram through the Bab Al-Majles Gate. The funeral procession will be in the following order:

Carriers of wreaths and flowers
Scouts Groups
The coffin
Members of the Husseini Family
Representatives of the President, Religious clergy, diplomatic corps and other official representatives
Other people paying condolences will follow

Eulogies at the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be in the following order:
Representative from President Yasser Arafat
The Islamic Higher Committee
Representative of the Christian Churches
Speaker on behalf of the people of Jerusalem
A representative of Palestinians living inside the Green Line
Members of the Husseini Family

Faisal Abdul Qader Al-Husseini - the determined struggler, the faithful peace maker, the leader - will be laid to rest beside his esteemed father, the renown national leader, Abdul Qader Al-Husseini and his grand father and former Mayor of Jerusalem Moussa Kazem Al-Husseini.

Condolences will be received at the Orient House from Friday until the eve of Sunday the 3rd of June.

For written condolences please send faxes to 627-1265, 627-4020, 628-8765 or email condolences@orienthouse.org. For the most current updates please visit www.orienthouse.org

Subject: ACJ mourns the Passing of Faisal Husseini

ACJ PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release
May 31, 2001
Contact: Lara Saade
(202) 237-0215

ACJ mourns the Passing of Faisal Husseini

It is with deep sorrow that the American Committee on Jerusalem (ACJ) mourns the untimely passing of Faisal Husseini. Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini, Member of the PLO Executive Committee in Charge of Jerusalem Affairs, died this morning, Thursday the 31st of May, at the age of 61. He was in Kuwait City at the time leading a Palestinian delegation at a conference in defense of Palestinian rights. He is survived by wife Najat, his son AbdulQader (27), and his daughter Fadwa (25), both of whom are graduates of Bir Zeit University in Palestine.

Faisal Husseini was born in exile in Baghdad on the 17th of July 1940. He pursued his education in Cairo and later received a B.A. in Military Science from the Syrian Military Academy in 1967. He was jailed by Israel for one year in 1967 and was placed under constant house arrest in 1982-87. He then served numerous terms of administrative detention, one lasting ten months in 1987-88. In 1979 he founded the Arab Studies Society, a research and data collection center in East Jerusalem. In October 1991, he led a Palestinian delegation which met with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker to lay the ground work for the start of peace talks between the PLO and Israel. He was named Head of the Palestinian team to the Middle East Peace Conference. His headquarters were in the Orient House in East Jerusalem. Husseini was the minister without Portfolio in the Palestinian National Authority, in charge of the Jerusalem file.

Like his grandfather, Musa Kazim Pasha Al-Husseini, who died weeks after being beaten by British troops during a demonstration in 1934, and his father, AbdelQader Al-Husseini, who died in battle defending the Arab village of Qastal near Jerusalem in 1948, Faisal Husseini was well-known for his personal courage. He repeatedly rushed to the scenes of takeovers of Palestinian properties in Jerusalem by aggressive armed Israeli settlers, and frequently led peaceful protests by Jerusalemites against Israeli policies in the Palestinian capital, in several of which he was injured or tear-gassed. He was tireless in his defense of Arab Jerusalem.

He was a close friend and supporter of ACJ. He was a keynote speaker at ACJ-sponsored events on several occasions, most recently earlier this month at the National Press Club. He received several ACJ-sponsored delegations to Jerusalem at the Orient House. Husseini was a committed and patriotic Palestinian leader who worked tirelessly to defend the cause of Jerusalem and Palestine and bring about a just and lasting peace. His sudden death will leave a gap which will be hard to fill.

American Committee on Jerusalem * 4201 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 302 Washington, D.C. 20008 Tel: (202) 237-0215 * Fax: (202) 244-3196 * e-mail: acj@acj.org The ACJ was founded by various individuals and organizations dedicated to promoting a solution to Jerusalem which addresses the deep attachments of adherents to the three monotheistic religions to the city and the political aspirations of both Palestinians and Israelis.

The ACJ is a coalition of major Arab-American organizations dedicated to promoting a solution to Jerusalem which accommodates the deep attachments of people of the three monotheistic religions to the city and the political aspirations of both, Palestinians and Israelis.

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