The Palestinian delegation to the Arab League (AL) will demand support for an international investigation into the death of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials said on Sunday.

PLO senior official Saeb Erekat said he will use the emergency meeting next Tuesday to discuss new facts suggesting that Arafat was poisoned. The meeting was requested by Tunisia following an investigative program on the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera, aired on July 3. The AL is meeting in Doha, Qatar next Sunday.

Meanwhile, Tawfiq Tirawi, head of the Palestinian investigation into the death of Arafat, said that an international committee will unite both Arab and Palestinian efforts to get to the truth.

Arafat became ill in Ramallah where he had spent two years under siege by Israeli forces. He was airlifted to a Paris military hospital and died by unknown cause on November 11, 2004.