Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat isn’t resting in peace.
Workers with jackhammers began opening Arafat’s concrete-encased grave yesterday in his former compound in the West Bank.
Arafat’s remains are being exhumed by French, Swiss and Russian investigators to check for radioactive polonium-210.
The investigation came after a Swiss lab this year discovered traces of the deadly isotope on some of Arafat’s clothes, sparking new suspicions he was poisoned.
The work is expected to take up to two weeks, according to two Palestinian officials. The work at the grave site is shrouded in secrecy, amid cultural sensitivities over digging up the remains.
Arafat died in November 2004, a month after suddenly falling ill.