Sharon in critical health condition

The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has been hospitalized and underwent surgery for a brain hemorrhage that put him into a coma.

Channel II in the Israeli TV said that Sharon who was transported urgently to the hospital has the lower part of his body paralyzed. Sharon recently suffered a stroke.

Professor Sholoumo More, the former director of Hadasa Ein Karm hospital in Jerusalem where the Israeli prime minister was transmitted from his farm in southern Negev said that the Israeli prime minister suffers a brain bleeding."

On the other hand, one Israeli political source said that Sharon is in a critical health condition and that "his condition seems much worse and I do not know if he will recover."

In a sign to the dangerous situation of which Sharon suffers, the secretary of the Israeli cabinet Israel Memon said that Ehud Olmert the Israeli deputy premier will assume Sharon's full authorities.

This came one day before the date set for Sharon to have a heart examination in the same hospital.

On December 18 Sharon was admitted to hospital following a brain stroke described as simple, as claimed by heart doctors at Hadasa hospital.

Sharon 78 years old returned back to work after health problem which raised fears during a period which he was expected to dominate the political scene in Israel, at a time when he seeks to win a third term of office over the government in the elections of March this year.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his concern about the deterioration of Sharon's health and called, from Amman, Israeli leadership and to express his worry.