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Source: http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=483&ArticleID=1455
Arafat Suffered from Leukemia, Medical Treatment Exasperated His Condition
(Israel Defense) Amir Rapaport - In October 2004, IDF intelligence received news regarding severe deterioration in the physical health of Yasser Arafat in the Mukata building in Ramallah where Arafat was besieged. Spanish diplomat Javier Solana, then in charge of foreign and defense matters for the EU, phoned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's bureau to request the release of Arafat from the siege to allow him to receive medical treatment in Europe. A senior PA official told Sharon's bureau chief Dov Weisglass that "Arafat only had a few weeks left to live. If he dies in the Mukata, you will be perceived as responsible for his death." Arafat arrived on October 29 in Paris in serious condition. According to information revealed here for the first time from sources that had first-hand knowledge of the full picture, he suffered from complications stemming from leukemia. Arafat's condition had begun to improve at the French hospital. Then, according to Israeli sources, the French doctors performed a dramatic measure - a full body blood transfusion. The process put Arafat in a state of shock and into a coma, one from which he never recovered. He died on November 11, 2004. The direct cause of Arafat's death was the medical treatment he was given. The heads of the PA and the widow, Suha Arafat, knew the truth all along, and they know it just as well today.