The 58-year-old man’s physique is handed over to the Palestine Pink Crescent Society amid intensified Israeli assaults on the Palestinian territory.
Israeli troops have handed to the Palestinian well being authorities the physique of a Palestinian man arrested about an hour earlier within the occupied West Bank.
The Palestine Pink Crescent Society mentioned on Monday that it had obtained the physique of 58-year-old Ayman Rajeh Abed, who belonged to Kafr Dan village outdoors Jenin, shortly after he was arrested at daybreak on Monday.
The director of the Jenin Authorities Hospital mentioned the physique bore indicators of beatings and torture.
The Israeli army mentioned Abed was detained throughout “counterterrorism” operations and skilled a “cardiac occasion” on arrival at a detention facility. He was given preliminary therapy by medical workers from the army earlier than being transferred to the hospital in Jenin.
“[Israel’s army] is conscious of reviews that the suspect died throughout his evacuation by the Pink Crescent,” the army mentioned in a press release, including that particulars of the incident had been beneath evaluate.
The incident got here because the Israeli forces expanded their operations within the flashpoint metropolis of Jenin and the encompassing areas for a sixth day.
Bulldozers continued to dig up streets and main thoroughfares to seek out roadside bombs on Monday.
Israel launched the operation, one of many largest in months, final Wednesday, saying Iranian-backed fighter teams had been planning to assault civilian targets.
Lots of of Israeli troops backed by drones and helicopters have taken half within the operation, which has brought about in depth harm to homes and infrastructure in Jenin and the densely-packed refugee camp adjoining to town.
‘Collective punishment’
Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Kafr Dan, mentioned the Palestinians in Jenin saved repeating that what has been occurring over the previous six days is “collective punishment”.
“They are saying Israel desires to indicate that Palestinians would pay a heavy worth for supporting armed fighters – those that decide up arms and attempt to fight Israeli forces whereas they’re raiding Palestinian houses, refugee camps and cities,” she mentioned.
No less than 29 Palestinians have been killed in lower than per week, with Israel claiming they had been members of armed factions together with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
One other 121 folks have been wounded, in response to Palestinian well being authorities. Late on Sunday, a person was killed within the west of Jenin metropolis.
On Monday, the Palestine Pink Crescent Society mentioned one other man was hit within the chest by gunfire in Qabatiya close to Jenin. His situation was described as severe.
