Yasser Arafat was Poisoned by Radio Active Material Leading to his Death

Eight years after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Al-Jazeera network published on Tuesday findings of an investigation which attempts to shed light on the circumstances of his death. According to the report, Swiss experts found high levels of polonium, a highly radioactive element, in his personal belongings.

Arafat's death on November 11, 2004 had generated no small number of conspiracy theories, including poisoning by Israel and even HIV.



Al-Jazeera's report cites experts from the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, who examined Arafat's belonging. "Tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element," Al-Jazeera reported.



The tests that were conducted in Paris immediately after Arafat's death found no evidence of poisoning. Al-Jazeera's research indicated that Arafat was in good health until falling suddenly ill in October.



In 2005, Haaretz reported that Israeli experts who analyzed the report drawn up by the medical team that treated Yasser Arafat in Paris say that the most likely possibility is that he was poisoned in a dinner meal on October 12, 2004.
Yasser Arafat


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Yasser Arafat, who died yesterday aged 75, was the unchallenged leader of the Palestinian people and their movement for statehood over more than 30 years.

Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Raouf 'Arafat al-Qudua al-Husseini was born in Cairo on August 24 1929, the sixth of seven children. (He assumed the forename Yasser, after a companion of the Prophet Mohammed, in the 1940s.) His father was a respectable wholesale foodstuffs merchant of modest means who moved the family from Gaza to Cairo.


In 1990, Yasser Arafat married, in conditions of great secrecy, 26-year-old Suha al-Tawil, a Palestinian Christian who converted to Islam on marriage, and who spent much of her time thereafter in Paris. They had a daughter, Zahwa.

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