Sharon 'showing movement on his left side'

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who suffered a massive stroke last week, has shown movement on his left side, Israeli media reported today.

Hadassah Hospital spokesman Ron Krumer wouldn’t comment on the reports that appeared on the Yediot Ahronot newspaper website and on Army Radio.

Sharon’s doctors reported that he slightly moved his right arm and leg yesterday, the day doctors began gradually waking him from an induced coma. The lifting of the coma continued today.