Israeli public radio reported Wednesday night that ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha Arafat, is expected to arrive in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Thursday in rush to Arafat's bedside.

Suha, who lives in Paris, was to cross into the West Bank from Jordan over the Allenby Bridge on the Jordan River, said the report.

Arafat is in critical condition and a team of doctors in his Ramallah headquarters were fighting for his life, Palestinian sources said on Wednesday night.

A Palestinian official revealed that Arafat had collapsed earlier Wednesday, was unconscious for about ten minutes and regained consciousness but remained in "very difficult situation."

A Palestinian cabinet minister said that Arafat is "very, very sick", and that a team of Jordanian doctors was urgently summoned to examine him.

Confined to his headquarters for the past two years by Israeli forces, Arafat underwent a minor diagnostic procedure on Monday after complaining of stomach pains. Palestinian officials said thenthat an endoscopy found no serious ailment.

Source: Xinhua