Over two dozen Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian medical sources said on Sunday at least 26 people sustained injuries from rubber-coated and live bullets fired by Israeli forces during the clashes with protesters demonstrating against the death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail.
Reports say a thirteen-year-old boy was also shot in the chest with a live bullet at the protest, and taken to a nearby hospital. Another teenager was shot with rubber bullets all over his body.
Issa Qaraqea, the Palestinian Authority’s minister for prisoners’ affairs, has said that Palestinian inmate Arafat Jaradat was tortured before he died in Israel’s Magiddo prison.
Jaradat was arrested on February 18 on suspicion he was involved in hurling stones at Israeli troopers.
Qaraqea revealed the results of autopsy on Jaradat’s body on Sunday, and dismissed Israeli prison officials’ claims that the 30-year-old man had died of cardiac arrest.
The Palestinian Authority minister said Jaradat’s autopsy showed torture that caused fractures in his body and skull, while his heart was in good condition.
“Our information was that Jaradat was being interrogated and then he died. Therefore we call for an international investigation into his death that may have resulted from torture,” he stated.
On Sunday, similar demonstrations were also held in the cities of al-Khalil, Beit Ummar, Halhul, Bethlehem, Qalqilya and Tulkarm.
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