The Palestinians said yesterday that Israel is the only suspect in the “assassination” of Yasser Arafat, a day after Swiss experts said tests suggested their veteran leader was killed by polonium poisoning.

The remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, to enable foreign experts to take samples as part of a probe into his death, a Palestinian official said today.

Defending a week-long siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s compound, Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon today said some of the wanted men holed up inside are “the biggest terrorists that exist”.