Arafat in coma and in ‘extremely bad state’: French medical source.

PARIS (AFP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in a coma and in an “extremely bad state”, French medical sources told AFP.

Arafat was on life support at the Percy military hospital in Clamart, southwest of Paris.

“He is still in a coma,” the medical sources added Thursday.

The source revealed that Arafat was not responding to treatment before adding that the Palestinian leader had not received proper medical care while at his Ramallah headquarters.