PARIS, Nov 9: Following is a summary of events on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's ailing health, following conflicting reports on Tuesday about his condition.
Oct 23: A team of Tunisian doctors are allowed by Israel to travel to the West Bank town of Ramallah to examine Arafat.
The Palestinian leader's advisor Nabil Abu Rudeina says Arafat is "OK".
Oct 24: Tunisian doctors say Arafat is suffering from a severe case of flu.
Oct 25: Israel allows Arafat to leave his Ramallah headquarters, where he has been under siege for nearly three years, to be treated at a local hospital.
Oct 27: Arafat has lost consciousness, Israeli radio says, although one of the Palestinian leader's aides denies that.
- Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei says Arafat is in critical condition.
- Israel says it will allow Arafat to seek treatment wherever he wishes.
Oct 28: Qorei and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speak over telephone.
- A team of Jordanian doctors, including Arafat's personal physician Ashraf al-Kurdi, arrives in Ramallah.
- One of Arafat's doctors says he is suffering from a blood disease related to a viral infection, cancer or blood poisoning and must be hospitalized overseas.
- Palestinian television airs images of Arafat in pyjamas and surrounded by his doctors.
- French presidency announces it has accepted a request by the Palestinian Authority for Arafat to be flown to Paris for treatment.
Oct 29: Arafat heads to the Jordanian capital Amman on board a helicopter and is then transferred to a French military jet that transports him to a military hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
Oct 30: Palestinian officials deny reports that Arafat is suffering from leukemia or that he has lost his faculties.
Oct 31: Sharon says he is opposed to Arafat, once dead, being buried in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Nov 2: Doctors issue a medical bulletin saying Arafat's illness is not leukemia.
Nov 3: Arafat is transferred to the hospital's intensive care unit.
Nov 4: A French medical source says Arafat is "brain dead" and only breathing thanks to artificial life support systems. Officials categorically deny reports that he is dead.
Nov 5: His spokeswoman in Paris says Arafat is "between life and death" and in a reversible coma.
Nov 7: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier say Arafat is alive but in serious condition. Barnier also announces that several Palestinian leaders, including acting Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Mahmud Abbas are expected in Paris the following day.
Nov 8: Arafat's wife Suha lashes out at the Palestinian leaders due to visit her husband, accusing them of trying to usurp power from him while he is still alive.
Nov 9: Arafat's condition deteriorated overnight and he is now in a deeper coma, the spokesman for the French army says.
- A four-man delegation - Abbas, prime minister Ahmed Qorei, foreign minister Nabil Shaath and parliament speaker Rawhi Fattuh - visit the bedside of the ailing leader.
- After the delegation leaves the hospital, a cabinet minister in Ramallah announces that Arafat is dead. The news is immediately denied by a spokesman for the army medical services treating the Palestinian leader, saying he was still alive at 14.30 GMT, and is backed up by UN delegate Nasser el-Qidwa and the representative in France Leila Shahid.-AFP