The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee and the Fatah Central Committee would hold emergency meetings on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah over Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's health condition.

Well-informed Palestinian sources said that the two meetings were to be chaired by PLO Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to discuss the current situation of the ailing Palestinian leader.

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that the PLO Executive Committee and the Fatah Central Committee were urgently summoned to Arafat's Muqata headquarters in Ramallah and that Abbas was enroute to the compound.

Abbas had planned to fly to Paris before dawn Friday to visit Arafat, but the trip was cancelled after Abbas was told that he would be unable to speak to Arafat.

Earlier, reports said that Arafat, who is now at Peacy military Hospital in France for medical treatment, might be in coma, and was transferred to an intensive care unit on Wednesday. However, Chief of Arafat's office Tayeb Abdel Rahim told reporters that Arafat was taken to an intensive care unit and was under anesthetization so as to allow certain speculums to check his stomach, medulla and marrow.