Ex-israeli Pm Remains in Critical Condition

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon remains in critical condition and faces a "immediate danger" to his life, Israeli media reported on Thursday evening, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Sharon's life has been hanging in the balance since Tuesday when he suffered a severe kidney failure and a deterioration in the functions of other vital organs, reports said.

Earlier on Thursday, a director of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer near Tel Aviv, where Sharon has been hospitalized since January 2006, said that Sharon, 85, was not receiving dialysis due to potential complications due to his age and already fragile state, but instead was being administered antibiotics to treat infections.

"He's getting all the necessary treatments, the same with which he has been given for years," Ze'ev Rothstein told reporters. "If there was a problem in just one organ, it would be a different story, but that is not the case."

"Arik is a very strong man,"...