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Autopsy reveals ‘assault led to death of Palestinia­n’

Occupation regime had said he had been arrested without violence

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APalestini­an who died after Israeli occupation forces raided his home to arrest him had been assaulted, the results of an autopsy published by a Palestinia­n prisoners’ group said Sunday.

Mohammad Khatib, 24, died after being taken into custody during a raid on Beit Rima village, in the Occupied West Bank, in the early hours of Tuesday last week.

But in a statement, Palestinia­n Committee the of Prisoners’ Affairs said “preliminar­y results of autopsy clearly indicate martyr was assaulted beaten”.

The “body of the victim had bruises on the torso and the right thigh, as well as on other (body) parts,” said the statement published on the committee’s Facebook page.

“The brutal manner of his arrest had affected the functionin­g of his organs, which was the main cause of his death,” the statement added.

The autopsy was carried out at Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv in the presence of the head of the Palestinia­n Institute of Forensic Medicine, Rayan Al Ali. the the the and

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