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'Israel poisoned Arafat'
Beirut - A top leader of a Palestinian militant group publicly accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat.
Neither doctors nor Palestinian leaders would say what caused Arafat's death on Thursday after days in a coma at a Paris hospital. Rumours he had been poisoned by Israel had swirled for weeks.
"I hold Israel responsible for the crime of killing Abu Ammar," Hamas' top political leader, Khaled Mashaal, told Al-Jazeera television by telephone, using the late Palestinian leader's nom de guerre. He offered no evidence.
Mashaal referred to his own poisoning by Israeli agents in 1997 in Jordan. Mashaal survived only after Israel sent the antidote under pressure from the late Jordanian King Hussein.
"French, Arab or Palestinian doctors may not be able to find evidence" Arafat had been poisoned, Mashaal said.
"Yes, death is an act of God and a man the age of brother Abu Ammar may die a natural death, but all the circumstances which we have seen in the past two weeks and medical reports indicate that brother Abu Ammar had been poisoned," Mashaal said.
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