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Amina Khaled Mustafa Abbas (Arabic: أمينة عباس; née Al-Fanous; born 1942) is a Palestinian public figure who, as the wife of President Mahmoud Abbas, is the current first lady of Palestine.
Public life
Abbas is the First Lady of Palestine. She has served as Palestine's first lady since her husband was elected president in 2005.
She represented the State of Palestine at the second conference of the Arab Women Organization, a Jordanian women's rights organization, held in the United Arab Emirates in 2008.[citation needed] On 28 February 2012, Abbas co-sponsored a charitable donation campaign, along with Turkish First Lady Emine Erdoğan, for victims of an earthquake in Van, Turkey.[citation needed]
Personal life
She married Mahmoud Abbas in 1958.[citation needed] They have three sons. Her eldest son, Mazen Abbas, who ran a building company in Doha, died in Qatar of a heart attack in 2002. Her second son, Yasser Abbas, is a businessman. Her youngest son, Tareq, is a business executive. She has eight grandchildren, six of whom are part of the Seeds of Peace initiative.
In June 2014, Abbas underwent a surgical procedure at Assuta Medical Center, a private clinic in Ramat HaHayal in Tel Aviv. She was released two days after an operation on her leg.
