Palestinian who died in Israeli jail 'was tortured'
A Palestinian prisoner who died in an Israeli jail was tortured to death, a Palestinian official has claimed, dismissing Israeli accounts of an apparent heart attack.
Palestinians take cover during
clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, following the death
of Arafat Jaradat Photo:
AP
Arafat Jaradat's autopsy showed torture resulting
from fractures in his body and skull while his heart was in good condition, said
Issa Qaraqaa, the minister in charge of prisoner affairs, citing a Palestinian doctor who took
part in the autopsy.
"These results prove Israel killed him," Mr Qaraqaa told a news conference.
Jaradat died on Saturday in an Israeli jail from what prison authorities
initially said appeared to have been a heart attack.
The 30-year-old man from Sair near Hebron in the West Bank was arrested last
Monday for alleged involvement in a November 2012 stone-throwing incident which
injured an Israeli, according to Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence
service.
Palestinians said he was a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed
wing of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.
Jaradat's body was transferred to a hospital in Hebron late on Sunday after an autopsy at Israel's national forensic institute near Tel Aviv in which the Palestinian doctor participated.
He was to be buried at noon on Monday.
An Israeli police spokesman had no comment on the autopsy results or investigation into Jaradat's death, and would only say that "the subject is still under examination."
Jaradat's body was transferred to a hospital in Hebron late on Sunday after an autopsy at Israel's national forensic institute near Tel Aviv in which the Palestinian doctor participated.
He was to be buried at noon on Monday.
An Israeli police spokesman had no comment on the autopsy results or investigation into Jaradat's death, and would only say that "the subject is still under examination."
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