Editing Yasser Arafat (section)

===Failing health===
The first reports of Arafat's failing health by his doctors for what his spokesman said was [[influenza]] came on 25 October 2004, after he vomited during a staff meeting. His condition deteriorated in the following days.<ref name="Government">{{cite web|url=http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC052021/Government/GovernmentPage.html|title=Ending of Yasser's Life|website=Palestine: The Mystery Country|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015507/http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC052021/Government/GovernmentPage.html|archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref> Following visits by other doctors, including teams from Tunisia, Jordan, and Egypt—and agreement by Israel to allow him to travel—Arafat was flown from Ramallah to Jordan by a Jordanian military helicopter and from there to France on a French military plane. He was admitted to the [[Percy military hospital]] in [[Clamart]], a suburb of Paris.<ref name="Funeral">{{cite news|title=Arafat's funeral held in Cairo: Mystery illness|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4005027.stm|first=Peter|last=Biles |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=12 November 2004|access-date=17 June 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first= Yossi |last=Melman | newspaper = Haaretz | title = What killed Yasser Arafat? | date = 14 July 2011 | url = http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/2.294/what-killed-yasser-arafat-1.373131 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=29 October 2004|title=Frail Arafat arrives in France|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/29/israel4|access-date=17 June 2024|website=The Guardian}}</ref> On 3 November, he had lapsed into a gradually deepening coma.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.volokh.com/posts/chain_1100148783.shtml|title=Arafat: If he is "brain-dead," he is dead|first=Jim|last=Lindgren|date=4 November 2004|work=The Volokh Conspiracy | agency = [[Agence France-Presse]]}}</ref>

Arafat was pronounced dead at 03:30&nbsp;[[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] on 11 November 2004 at the age of 75 of what French doctors called a massive [[hemorrhagic]] [[cerebrovascular]] accident ([[hemorrhagic stroke]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/393851/hospitalization-report-english.pdf |title=Hospitalization Report |date=18 November 2004 |access-date=17 June 2024 |publisher=French Republic Ministry for Defence}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/palestinians-may-exhume-yasser-arafats-body-for-tests/|publisher=CBS News|title=Palestinians may exhume Yasser Arafat's body for tests|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704191712/https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57466369/palestinians-may-exhume-yasser-arafats-body-for-tests/|archive-date=4 July 2012|date=4 July 2012|access-date=5 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Initially, Arafat's medical records were withheld by senior Palestinian officials, and Arafat's wife refused an autopsy believing that it went against Muslim practices.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=Medical records say Arafat died from a stroke|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/international/middleeast/08arafat.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|access-date=17 June 2024|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 September 2005|first1=Steven |last1=Erlanger|first2=Lawrence K. |last2=Altman}}</ref> French doctors also said that Arafat suffered from a blood condition known as [[disseminated intravascular coagulation]], although it is inconclusive what brought about the condition.<ref name="TelegraphGastro">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/9396397/Yasser-Arafat-medical-records-show-health-was-blamed-on-gastroenteritis.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/9396397/Yasser-Arafat-medical-records-show-health-was-blamed-on-gastroenteritis.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Yasser Arafat medical records show health was blamed on gastroenteritis|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=12 July 2012|access-date=17 June 2024}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="APGastro">{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/arafat-medical-file-released-death-probe-190907751.html|title=New Arafat medical file released in death probe|agency=Associated Press|date=12 July 2012|access-date=15 July 2012|author=Laub, Karin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717033447/https://news.yahoo.com/arafat-medical-file-released-death-probe-190907751.html|archive-date=17 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> When Arafat's death was announced, the Palestinian people went into a state of mourning, with [[Qur'an]]ic mourning prayers emitted from mosque loudspeakers throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and tires burned in the streets.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-ap-arafat-palestinians-mourn-story.html|title=Palestinians Mourn Death of Arafat|work=Chicago Tribune|agency=Associated Press|date=11 November 2004|access-date=21 December 2017|last=Barzak|first=Ibrahim|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052824/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-ap-arafat-palestinians-mourn-story.html|archive-date=22 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The Palestinian Authority and refugee camps in Lebanon declared 40 days of mourning.<ref name="Funeral"/><ref>{{cite news|first=James|last=Bennet|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5DD173FF930A25752C1A9629C8B63|title=The Death of Arafat: An Emotion-Driven Flock Storms the Burial Ceremony|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=13 November 2004|access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref>