JERUSALEM: A French prosecutor recommended on has closed the investigation into the death in France of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose widow alleged he was poisoned.
Arafat, who signed the 1993 Oslo interim peace accord with Israel but led an uprising after subsequent talks broke down in 2000, died aged 75 in a French hospital in 2004.
The official cause of death was a massive stroke, but French doctors said at the time they were unable to determine the origin of his illness.
His widow, Suha Arafat, has argued the death was a political assassination by someone close to her husband.
But French forensic scientists concluded in 2013 that Arafat had not been the victim of poisoning.
French magistrates must now decide on whether to follow the prosecutor’s advice on the probe opened in August 2012.