Profile: Hospitalized Israeli PM Ariel Sharon

Related: Sharon to undergo surgery for intra-cranial bleeding

    JERUSALEM, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's operation for a brain haemorrhage is "coming to an end,"a hospital spokesman said Thursday.

    "The operation is coming to an end," Yael Bossam Levy, a spokesman for Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, was quoted as saying by Israel's public radio.

    Levy made the remarks six hours after the surgery began, adding that more details would be released at a press conference in the hospital before 7:00 am (0500 GMT).

    Sharon, 77, suffered a serious stroke with "massive bleeding"in his brain late Wednesday night. Enditem