Amina Abbas

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Amina 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.

Abbas is the First Lady of Palestine.^[1] 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]}

She married Mahmoud Abbas in 1958.^{[citation needed]} They have three sons.^[2] Her eldest son, Mazen Abbas, who ran a building company in Doha, died in Qatar of a heart attack in 2002.^[3] Her second son, Yasser Abbas, is a businessman.^[4] Her youngest son, Tareq, is a business executive. She has eight grandchildren, six of whom are part of the Seeds of Peace initiative.^[5]

In June 2014, Abbas underwent a surgical procedure at Assuta Medical Center, a private clinic in Ramat HaHayal, near Tel Aviv.^[6][7] She was released two days after the operation on her leg was completed.^[8][9]