Yasser Arafat's body being exhumed on Tuesday.

Palestinian officials on Saturday confirmed that this concrete-encased grave of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat will likely be dug up on The following thursday in his former compound in the West Bank, BBC news report.

Arafat's remains are being exhumed by French, Swiss and Russian investigators to confirm for a radioactive element, polonium-210.

The Body will undergo tests to uncover whether his death in Paris in 2004 was attributable to poisoning, the news survey further said.

French doctors could never discover what killed Arafat. Also there was simply no post-mortem done which can reveal the explanation for Arafat’s death.

The investigation came after having a Swiss lab earlier in 2010 discovered traces of the deadly isotope on most of Arafat's clothes, sparking completely new suspicions he was poisoned.

The Palestinian officials spoke on condition of anonymity since the work at the gravesite is shrouded in secrecy, amid cultural sensitivities over digging the remains of a adored leader. Arafat died in November 2004, a thirty day period after suddenly becoming i'll.

"The tomb will become opened on November 27 and experts is going to take samples the same day just a matter of some hours, " Tawfiq Tirawi, your head of the Palestinian request team told reporters in the West Bank city involving Ramallah.

However, Tirawi failed to explain the apparent hold up while stressing the exhumation was painful but important to establish the truth involving allegations that Israeli could possibly have poisoned the iconic Palestinian leader