ISRAEL/FILE: Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's health condition deteriorates to "life-threatening" after suffering kidney malfunction

Record ID: 397955

  • Title: ISRAEL/FILE: Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's health condition deteriorates to "life-threatening" after suffering kidney malfunction
  • Date: 1st January 2014
  • Summary: RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL (JANUARY 1, 2014) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF TEL HASHOMER HOSPITAL WHERE FORMER PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON IS HOSPITALISED PEOPLE GATHERED AT HOSPITAL ENTRANCE PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL CORRIDOR SECURITY VARIOUS JOURNALISTS REPORTING FROM OUTSIDE HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 16th January 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8HKTF3AXRLMZZD5WAWI9FX29
  • Story Text: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a 2006 stroke, has deteriorated to a "life threatening" condition after suffering kidney malfunction, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday (January 1).
    Officials at the hospital near Tel Aviv where Sharon, 85, has been treated, did not answer their telephones. A Health Ministry spokeswoman declined to comment.
    The ex-general and right-wing leader was known for executing a dramatic political about face with a 2005 Gaza pullout that turned Israeli politics on its head when he quit his party and created a centrist faction that ruled Israel for several years.
    Sharon was also behind the construction of the West Bank barrier Israel credits with stemming Palestinian suicide bombings that peaked in 2002 and 2003. Palestinians say it is a way to grab land because it encroaches onto occupied territory, and the World Court has ruled it illegal.
    The radio, echoing reports by other Israeli media outlets, said Sharon's condition had worsened in the past several days and that his life was in danger due to kidney failure.
    The Haaretz newspaper's Web site quoting an unnamed source said that Sharon could die in "a matter of days" if his condition continued to decline. Israel's Channel 2 television said Sharon's sons were at his bed side.
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