Former member of Palestine’s Fatah Central Committee, Ribhi Halloum, confirmed that “the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was assassinated by individuals near him”.
“What [former Qatari Prime Minister, Hamad] Bin Jassem stated confirms what I’ve stated over the previous years, that Arafat’s killer is a prison identified to the Palestinian Authority and its leaders,” Halloum advised Quds Press.
The Palestinian Authority’s management has made a political choice to not reveal the identification of the actual killer and to shut the file completely, Halloum defined.
Earlier on Wednesday, Bin Jassim stated, in an interview with the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper, that “the sudden change in Arafat’s well being signifies that one thing was being hatched for him, and maybe there have been those that had given him one thing so as to eradicate him.”
“This can be a truth. Yasser Arafat was definitely killed, and by individuals round him,” he added.
Arafat died on 11 November 2004, in a army hospital within the French capital, Paris, after his well being deteriorated quickly, after being besieged by Israel for a number of months within the presidential headquarters within the metropolis of Ramallah, within the occupied West Financial institution.
