Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, according to Swiss forensic experts.
Arafat was said to have died of a stroke, however Palestinians and others have long accused the Israeli government of poisoning him.
A report by scientists from the Vaudois University Hospital Centre (CHUV) in Lausanne said that Arafat’s exhumed body showed unusually high levels of polonium.
An Israeli spokeseperson dismissed the allegation, saying it was "more soap opera than science".
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