measured by the other teams supported their conclusions of a probable death by polonium poisoning. In March 2015, a French prosecutor closed a 2012 French inquiry, stating that French experts had determined Arafat's death was of natural causes, and that the polonium and lead traces found were environmental. Legacy Places named in his honor include: Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital Yasser Arafat Cup Yasser Arafat International Airport See also List of Fatah members Nobel Prize controversies Notes and references Further reading Sela, Avraham. "Arafat, Yasser." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Ed. Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 166–171. External links Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) at PASSIA A Life in Retrospect: Yasser Arafat, Time Presidents of Palestine 1929 births 2004 deaths Articles containing video clips Cairo University alumni Central Committee of Fatah members Palestinian civil engineers Collars of the Order of the White Lion Fatah members Fatah military commanders Members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Nobel Peace Prize laureates Palestine Liberation Organization Palestine Liberation Organization members Palestinian Arab nationalists Palestinian billionaires Palestinian Muslims Palestinian nationalists Palestinian Nobel laureates Palestinian people imprisoned by Syria Palestinian people of Egyptian descent Palestinian revolutionaries Politicians from Cairo People of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict People of the Lebanese Civil War Presidents of the Palestinian National Authority Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class Sri Lanka Mitra Vibhushana Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents 21st-century Palestinian politicians 20th-century Palestinian politicians