Palestinian Protester Killed in Ariha Died of Gunshot Wound
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Coroners found on Saturday that a Palestinian man killed on Thursday in Ariha in clashes with Zionist troops died of a gunshot wound, a Palestinian official said.
Coroners at the L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir performed an autopsy on the remains of the Palestinian man, Yassin al-Saradih, on Friday. Rayyan al-Ali, a Palestinian doctor, was present at the autopsy, official Palestinian Authority media reported.
"The autopsy found that Saradih died due to massive blood loss after a Zionist trooper shot him in his lower abdomen,” Essa Qaraqaa, PLO Prisoners Commission Chairman, told The Jerusalem Post.
A video shared on social media shows Saradih running at soldiers with a large object.
A soldier then shot at Saradih, who immediately fell on the ground. Subsequently, a group of soldiers restrained Saradih, while beating him with their weapons and kicking him.
Thereafter, the soldiers dragged Saradih away.
Rights groups have denounced Tel Aviv’s extrajudicial killings in situations where they say alleged assailants could have been detained in a non-lethal manner. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in similar circumstances.
According to the Palestinian human rights group, the Jerusalem (al-Quds) Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), the regime is currently holding the bodies of 19 Palestinians killed in the past two years, along with 260 bodies of those killed since 1967.
Almost 6,280 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli jails, 465 of them under the controversial administrative detention, according to figures provided by the Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes to voice their outrage at the administrative detention, which is a form of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months.
Palestinian prisoners complain that they have been subject to assault and torture at the regime’s prisons.
Coroners at the L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir performed an autopsy on the remains of the Palestinian man, Yassin al-Saradih, on Friday. Rayyan al-Ali, a Palestinian doctor, was present at the autopsy, official Palestinian Authority media reported.
"The autopsy found that Saradih died due to massive blood loss after a Zionist trooper shot him in his lower abdomen,” Essa Qaraqaa, PLO Prisoners Commission Chairman, told The Jerusalem Post.
A video shared on social media shows Saradih running at soldiers with a large object.
A soldier then shot at Saradih, who immediately fell on the ground. Subsequently, a group of soldiers restrained Saradih, while beating him with their weapons and kicking him.
Thereafter, the soldiers dragged Saradih away.
Rights groups have denounced Tel Aviv’s extrajudicial killings in situations where they say alleged assailants could have been detained in a non-lethal manner. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in similar circumstances.
According to the Palestinian human rights group, the Jerusalem (al-Quds) Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), the regime is currently holding the bodies of 19 Palestinians killed in the past two years, along with 260 bodies of those killed since 1967.
Almost 6,280 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli jails, 465 of them under the controversial administrative detention, according to figures provided by the Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes to voice their outrage at the administrative detention, which is a form of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months.
Palestinian prisoners complain that they have been subject to assault and torture at the regime’s prisons.