In Pictures

Arafat’s final effects

A collection of the items Al Jazeera analysed while studying what killed Yasser Arafat.

The bag — All of Arafat(***)s final possessions were kept in this gym bag.

These are the items Yasser Arafat had with him when he died – his glasses, his clothes, even his trademark keffiyeh.

All of them were sent to the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were examined for a range of poisons and heavy metals, everything from arsenic to zinc.

The "Russian hat" — This is the hat Arafat was wearing when he left his Ramallah compound for the last time.

Another hat — A baseball cap Arafat sometimes wore while in France.

His slippers — Arafat wore these slippers while he was in Ramallah and while he was hospitalised.

His clothing — Items of clothing that Arafat wore in his final days.

His kaffiyeh — Arafat(***)s iconic kaffiyeh.

His spectacles — Various pairs of eyeglasses Arafat wore.

His medications — Several of the medicines and other pharmaceutical products Arafat brought with him to Paris.