Zionist entity “prime suspect” behind Yasser Arafat’s death, chief Palestinian investigator says

Israel is the sole suspect for the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, the leader of an official Palestinian investigation into the affair said on Friday,according to the Telegraph.

Yasser Arafat not only upset the Israelis, but also some of those on his own side Yasser Arafat died in France on November 11, 2004 at the age of 75, but doctors were unable to specify the cause of death.

The head of a Palestinian committee investigating the death of Yasser Arafat has identified Israel as the “prime and only” suspect in his “assassination” following a scientific report backing claims that the late guerilla leader was deliberately poisoned.

In the first authoritative response from the Palestinian Authority [PA] to a Swiss report suggesting that Arafat suffered radioactive polonium poisoning before his death in 2004, Tawfik Tirawi said it was clear that he did not die of old age, chronic illness or from natural causes.

“The basis [of the investigation] is to find who stands behind the assassination of Yasser Arafat and who had the technical and scientific resources for that,” Mr Tirawi, head of an official inquiry team, told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “We say that Israel is the prime and only suspect to be accused and we will continue to have a complete investigation of the to find out all the details and factors of the case.”

Mr Tirawi blamed Israel a day after several official Israeli officials stated publicly on Thursday that the government of former prime minister Ariel Sharon – who was in office when Arafat died – was not responsible. While many Palestinians have long pointed the finger at Israel, there has also been speculation that the late leader may have been poisoned by a member of his own inner circle before he suddenly fell ill in October 2004.

A 108-page report compiled by Swiss scientists at a research laboratory in Lausanne found more than18-times the normal level of polonium-210 in samples of Arafat’s remains, which were disinterred from his tomb a year ago.

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