Jerusalem, November 4
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared clinically dead today in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources.
But, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: “I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit.”
Israel’s Channel Two TV cited unnamed sources in Paris as saying that Arafat underwent a brain scan and was found to be “no longer alive”. —
Reuters
