Fathi Arafat, brother of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died of stomach cancer here Wednesday, Egyptian news agency MENA reported.

The 73-year-old Fathi, former head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, had been fighting the cancer for months in the Egyptian capital, said one of his relatives.

A doctor of a hospital in Cairo, where Fathi was being treated, said he died at home.

His death came within a month after his brother Yasser Arafat died in a French military hospital on the outskirts of Paris on Nov. 11 and was buried in the West Bank city of Ramallah the next day.