Israel offers burial place for Arafat
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Yasser Arafat can be buried at his battered headquarters here as the Palestinians requested, the Israeli government decided Wednesday in a gesture to his likely successor, Mahmoud Abbas.
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Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reaffirmed that he would block moves to bury Yasser Arafat in Jerusalem, public radio reported Thursday as medical sources said the Palestinian leader was clinically dead.
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Egypt has agreed to host a funeral in Cairo for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who is in a Paris hospital where he suffered a brain hemorrhage, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said.
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CLAMART, FRANCE - When Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies, he can be buried in the Gaza Strip, Israel has decided. Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofax briefed the cabinet on Sunday about security preparations for the Arafat&#39;s funeral.
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(New York -WABC, November 7, 2004) - Israel has made plans to bury Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip. Arafat wanted to be buried in the Arab section of Jerusalem, but Israel firmly denied his request.
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Israel will allow Palestiniansecurity forces to take charge of security arrangements duringArafat&#39;s burial in Ramallah, local newspaper Ha&#39;aretz quotedDefense Minister Shaul Mofaz as saying Thursday.
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RAMALLAH, Nov. 11. - Yasser Arafatâs funeral will take place in Cairo tomorrow before he is buried on the same day at his West Bank headquarters, a top aide said today.
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Yasser Arafat will be buried at the battered West Bank headquarters that had been his virtual prison for the last three years, his aides decided after the Palestinian leader sank deeper into a coma.
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When Yasser Arafat dies, the Palestinians want him to be buried in Jerusalem. But the Israelis have drawn up plans to facilitate a funeral in Gaza.
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Gaza City - With Yasser Arafat fighting for his life in hospital and Israel firmly opposed to a Jerusalem burial, many Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as a fitting alternative place of rest for their leader.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinian  mourners flooded into Yasser Arafat's compound and mobbed his  coffin after it arrived for burial on Friday in the area where  Israeli forces trapped him until his final days.
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Israel gave Yasser Arafat permission Monday to briefly leave his compound to receive medical treatment in the West Bank city of Ramallah, heightening concerns the Palestinian leader is seriously ill.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be buried at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah when he dies, Palestinian officials said Wednesday.
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Yasser Arafat cannot be buried in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet, while affirming his pledge to let the ailing Palestinian leader return to the West Bank if he recovers.
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Egypt, where Yasser Arafat began his  political life and where biographers say he was born, will host  a military funeral for the Palestinian president on Friday  before he is buried in the West Bank, officials said.
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Israel decided on Monday to allow Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to leave his Ramallah compound and receive medical treatment in a hospital in the West Bank city.
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Palestinian officials say Yasser Arafat will be buried at his West Bank headquarters if he dies. Top aides say the 75-year-old Palestinian leader has suffered a brain hemorrhage and remains deeply comatose on life support at a Paris hospital.