Raymonda Tawil

[citation needed] Because of her political activities as a journalist, she was placed under house arrest for six months by Israeli military decision.

[citation needed] She is a Christian who visited churches of multiple denominations, she has always advocated dialogue and reconciliation between the two peoples, a position that sometimes earned her hostility.

[1][additional citation(s) needed] Having narrowly escaped a targeted attack whose perpetrators were never found, she fled to France while Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO in Tunis, married Suha, Raymonda Tawil's daughter.

[citation needed] In 1994, she returned to Gaza and attended the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA), while remaining very close to her French and Israeli friends.

[citation needed] Living alongside the President, Raymonda Tawil become Arafat's confidant and a close acquaintance.

The family was evicted from Tunisian territory by then-president Ben Ali in August 2007 and subsequently took refuge in Malta.