"I will not accuse anybody without having proof in my hands," she said. "I don't want to jump into any conclusions before all the inquiries are done correctly and professionally." Israel has repeatedly denied any involvement in Arafat's death, calling Wednesday's report "more soap opera than science, it is the latest episode in the soap in which Suha opposes Arafat's successors," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the Reuters news agency. Suha notes that only a Palestinian in Arafat's inner circle could have gotten to him at the time he fell ill, when his presidential compound was under siege for months by Israeli forces. "It has to be administered by somebody who is near who can put it in his tea, a kind of injection or a powder," she said. "You have to be near him to know that he took it." As for next steps, she hopes the Palestinian authorities will investigate further, particularly the presidential office – the Moqata – "to know the real author of this crime."
