Amid mounting pressure from widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the successor of late leader, some parts of medical reports have released, stating that he was poisoned.
According to Xinhua reports, a Jordanian doctor Abdullah al-Basheer has clained that Yasser Arafat died after consuming an unknown poison, but it was not examined at that time.
Al-Basheer, who launched an inquiry into the case, was speaking to reporters in West Bank.
Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor, ordered a probe after al-Jazeera TV concluded in an investigative report that Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium.
To confirm the report, Arafat's body needs to be exhumed for tests. The Palestinian leadership said it is ready to dig up Arafat's remains for the probe.
Arafat died at a French hospital near Paris, three weeks after he was airlifted from his West Bank headquarters, where he spent his last two years.
--With Agencies inputs--
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