Arafat ‘between life and death’ as row erupts

YASSER ARAFAT was lying in a coma “between life and death” yesterday as a row brewed between Israelis and Palestinians over a likely burial site.

A spokesman for the military hospital treating him said in the evening that Mr Arafat’s condition had been stable for the past 24 hours, declaring: “The state of health of President Yasser Arafat has not got worse.”

Palestinian envoy to France Leila Shahid denied Mr Arafat, 75, was braindead and said he was in a reversible coma.