Autopsy reveals ‘assault led to death of Palestinian’
Occupation regime had said he had been arrested without violence
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