Qatari official claims: “Yasser Arafat” was killed by his relatives
The former Qatari prime minister said in an interview that the former head of the Palestinian Authority had been assassinated by his relatives.
Former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim told Al-Quds newspaper host Ammar Taqi in an interview with Al-Sindouk Al-Aswad that former Yasser Arafat leader Yasser Arafat had been assassinated by his relatives.
He added: “A few months before Arafat’s illness, a meeting was held in my office in Doha after 2002, attended by Palestinian and Israeli figures, and all the mechanisms by which Arafat could get out of the crisis safely were discussed.”
Hamad bin Jassim continued: “After a short time, the parties that were in the meeting announced that there was no need to continue the discussion, and after a few months, we were surprised by Arafat’s illness, and then he died.”
He stressed that the changes that took place in Arafat’s health and body show that a plan has been organized against him and that some people may have given something to Arafat to eliminate him.
Yasser Arafat died in a French hospital in 2004 at the age of 75 and was buried in Ramallah, apparently without an autopsy, but various theories later emerged that he might have died of radioactive poisoning.
Swiss experts announced last month that they had detected traces of a radioactive chemical in Yasser Arafat’s clothes, and an investigation into his death was launched following the announcement.
Eight years after the suspicious death of his wife, Arafat’s widow, Sahi, filed a new complaint with the French judiciary, claiming that Arafat had been poisoned in a French military hospital before her death in 2004 and that she had left France unaware of the cause. He questioned the death of his wife and the destruction of his medical specimens at Percy Hospital.
