Accordingto a spokeswomanfortheIsraelihospital, hewasparticularlyvulnerabletotherespiratorydisease.
イスラエルの病院の広報担当者によると、彼は特に呼吸器系の病気にかかりやすかったという。
Havingundergone a lungtransplantintheUnitedStatesthreeyearsearlier, Erekatwaswellknownindiplomaticcirclesacrosstheworldonregularlyfeaturedininternationalmedia.
Inrecentyears, hewastheprincipalfaceof a warofwordswithPresidentDonaldTrump's administrationover a MiddleEastplanthatenvisionedleavingIsraelincontrolofJewishsettlementsonlargepartsoftheoccupiedWestBank.
Afterpeacetalkscollapsedin 2000 and 14, heremained a firmbackerofthenegotiatedcreationof a futurePalestinianstatecoexistingalongsideIsraelevenif, inhisownwords, ittook 50 years.