Palestinian dies an hour after Israel arrests him from occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera
The 58-year-old man’s body is handed over to Red Crescent amid intensified Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territory.
Israeli troops have handed to the Palestinian health authorities the body of a Palestinian man arrested about an hour earlier in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Monday that it had received the body of 58-year-old Ayman Rajeh Abed, who belonged to Kafr Dan village outside Jenin, shortly after he was arrested at dawn on Monday.
The director of the Jenin Government Hospital said the body bore signs of beatings and torture.
The Israeli military said Abed was detained during “counterterrorism” operations and experienced a “cardiac event” on arrival at a detention facility. He was given initial treatment by medical staff from the military before being transferred to the hospital in Jenin.
“[Israel’s army] is aware of reports that the suspect died during his evacuation by the Red Crescent,” the military said in a statement, adding that details of the incident were under review.
