A plaza honoring Yasser Arafat was inaugurated in El Salvador. The Israeli Embassy criticized the honorfor the late Palestinian Authority president, which was inaugurated Wednesday in the capital of San Salvador. El Salvador is home to a strong community of Palestinian immigrants, and the country’s president, Tony Saca, is of Palestinian descent.
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