Bouquet for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat outside Percy military hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Palestinian officials said here Monday that the health of Yasser Arafat is "stable" and that they are "more confident" of an improvement in his condition. Arafat flew to Paris last Friday from his headquarters in Ramallah where he had been confined since December 2001.
French soldiers check a car at the entrance of Percy military hospital, where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is being treated, on the outskirts of Paris Nov. 1, 2004