A medical meeting to review late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death has been delayed, said a local medical expert on Thursday.

The meeting, originally slated for Thursday, was cancelled since some doctors from Palestine areas cannot attend the gathering here, said Abdullah al-Bashir, a Jordanian doctor and leader of a medical team newly formed to undertake an inquiry on Arafat's death.

The meeting will be rescheduled soon, according to the doctor, without further elaborating.

Last week, the Yasser Arafat Foundation launched a medical team, gathering doctors from Palestinian areas and other Arab states, to probe the late leader's death. It includes some doctors who were in charge of Arafat's health in 2004 when he died in a Paris hospital, according to the doctor.

Arafat led the Palestinian national movement for almost four decades before he died of what French doctors described as a "brain haemorrhage" on Nov. 11, 2004.

His death immediately sparked speculations with Palestinians accused Israel of poisoning the leader while Israel strongly denied such a role.

(Xinhua News Agency April 3, 2009)