Former Israel Prime Minister Ariel sheron condition deteriorated

Jerusalem: Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s condition has dramatically deteriorated and the 85-year-old leader was facing his ‘final hours’, doctors said on Friday at the hospital where he has been in coma since 2006.
The Sheba Medical Center, in a statement, said, “Over the past hours, there has been a worsening of the condition of former prime minister Ariel Sharon. His condition is described as grave and his family is at his side all the time.”
Sharon has been in coma since January 4, 2006 when he suffered a massive stroke while still at the helm of affairs.
The director general of Sheba Medical Center, Professor Zeev Rotstein, while giving an update on the former Premier’s condition four days ago had said that “in the last 24 hours the risk on (Sharon’s) life has not decreased, and has even increased.”
He had emphasized that even though Sharon’s heart had stabilized, there was deterioration in other organs of his body.
“In my opinion, if there won’t be a miraculous dramatic change, the situation will continue getting worse by the day,” Rotstein had said.
Sharon is suffering from a blood infection and kidney failure.
He is revered by many in Israel as ‘Mr. Security’ for his contributions in all the major wars since Israel’s independence. He is reviled in equal measure in the Arab world as the ‘butcher of Sabra and Shatila’.
While serving as defence minister in 1982, he masterminded Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. During the invasion, Lebanese Christian militiamen allied to Israel massacred hundreds of Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps, Sabra and Shatila, under Israeli control.
He was nevertheless elected prime minister 18 years later, pledging to achieve ‘security and true peace’, and served until his second stroke.