Only Israeli PM to ever visit India, Ariel Sharon, no more
13 Jan 2014 4:17 AM IST
Sharon's son Gilad announced the death at the hospital where his father had been treated.
Doctors had predicted his imminent death after his health declined sharply last week.
Ministers in Israel's right-wing government, and the political opposition, mourned a tough and wily leader who left big footprints on the region through military invasion, Jewish settlement building on captured land and a shock, unilateral decision to pull Israeli troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005.
‘The nation of Israel has today lost a dear man, a great leader and a bold warrior,’ Strategic Affairs
Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement.
There was no immediate comment on the death from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, with whom Sharon's Likud party successor, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been holding U.S.-sponsored peace talks.
But in Gaza, the Hamas Islamists whose political fortunes rose with the Israeli withdrawal savoured
Sharon's demise.
Doctors had predicted his imminent death after his health declined sharply last week.
Ministers in Israel's right-wing government, and the political opposition, mourned a tough and wily leader who left big footprints on the region through military invasion, Jewish settlement building on captured land and a shock, unilateral decision to pull Israeli troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005.
‘The nation of Israel has today lost a dear man, a great leader and a bold warrior,’ Strategic Affairs
Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement.
There was no immediate comment on the death from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, with whom Sharon's Likud party successor, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been holding U.S.-sponsored peace talks.
But in Gaza, the Hamas Islamists whose political fortunes rose with the Israeli withdrawal savoured
Sharon's demise.
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