(Ha'aretz) As the Palestinian Authority prepared to exhume the body of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after a Swiss lab announced that it found elevated levels of polonium on Arafat's belongings, Israeli government officials on Wednesday rejected suggestions that Israel may have poisoned him with the lethal radioactive isotope. "The report is baseless," said one senior official, adding that it was not Israel that decided to keep the late Palestinian leader's medical records closed. "The circumstances of Arafat's death are not a mystery," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. "He was treated in France, in a French hospital by French doctors and they have all the medical information."
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