The leader of the Palestinian people, Mr Yasser Arafat, has been laid to rest at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
He was buried in a concrete coffin following the recital of Islamic prayers.
Islamic clerics symbolically placed samples of soil from the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem below and above Mr Arafat's coffin to represent where Palestinians hope he may one day be buried.
There were scenes of chaos and high emotion earlier as tens of thousands of mourners converged on the helicopter carrying the body of their leader after it landed at his Muqataa headquarters following this morning's funeral in Cairo.
Mourners gathered at Mr Arafat's compound despite the closure by Israel of towns and cities in the West Bank to prevent Palestinians wishing to travel to Ramallah from the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian police tried to hold back thousands of mourners who gathered at the compound, which became a symbol of resistance for Palestinians over the last three years.
Mr Arafat was accorded full military honours.
As the helicopter landed, the crowd cried out "Welcome, welcome Abu Ammar!" using his nom de guerre. "Welcome welcome old man!" The new Palestinian leader, Mr Mahmoud Abbas, tried to emerge from the helicopter, but the crowd kept him back.
Armed policemen had tried for several hours to keep people back, but mourners, eager to get close to the gravesite, pushed their way through. Police scrambled to keep people off the helicopter landing pad.
A police jeep forced its way through the mourners after a 25-minute stand-off as Palestinian officials accompanying the body from Egypt pleaded with the crowd to move back.
Armed police climbed on top of the coffin as the jeep drove the coffin toward the burial site through tens of thousands of people chanting and waving flags, waving photographs of Mr Arafat or their arms.
A car bomb blew up just a few miles from the compound, Israel TV reported. Two Palestinians were reported seriously wounded in the explosion near Ramallah's Bir Zeit University.
Mr Arafat's funeral took place this morning following prayers at a military base in Cairo led by Egypt's most senior Muslim cleric.
Mr Arafat's coffin, draped in the Palestinian flag, was brought from a military hospital and laid on carpets in a nearby mosque. After the brief prayers, a hearse drove the coffin to the starting point for the funeral procession to nearby Cairo airport.
An Egyptian military plane carried the coffin to the Egyptian Sinai town of el-Arish, from where it was flown to the West Bank by helicopter.
Dignitaries from around the world attended the ceremony to pay their respects. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Dermot Ahern, represented Ireland at the funeral. The President, Mrs McAleese, and the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, expressed their condolences yesterday
A short 25-minute ceremony at a military club in a Cairo suburb reflects concern for security at an event that drew dozens of statesmen and foreign ministers.
Assistant Secretary of State William Burns represented the United States. The Israeli Embassy in Cairo said it would not be represented.
Egypt sought to avoid an outpouring of public emotion that might either get out of control or show that the late Palestinian leader enjoyed more support than other Arab leaders.
Egypt stepped in to host the service for Mr Arafat, who died early Thursday, because it would be politically difficult for Arab leaders to travel to the Israeli-controlled Palestinian territories for a ceremony.
AP