RAMALLAH, May 25, 2018 (WAFA) – The Detainees Affairs Commission said on Friday that after autopsy was carried out to the body of Aziz Awaisat, a Palestinian detainee who died in Israeli prisons two days ago, it appeared that a cute heart attack was behind his death.

Dr. Rayyan Ali, director of the Palestinian Forensic Institute, said although a heart attack was the main cause for Awisat’s death, signs of bruises appeared on his body.

The commission also quoted the testimonies of some Palestinian detainees in Eshel prison, where Awaisat had been held before his death, who said that Awaisat was once exposed to a cruel assault by Israeli prison guards and had suffered severe bleeding as a result of that assault on May 2, only three weeks prior to his death.

Awaisat then reportedly fell into a comma and was moved to hospital, where his health deteriorated further before he was announced dead on May 23.

Awaisat was arrested by Israeli authorities on August 3, 2014 and was sentenced to 30 years in jail. He was born in September 1956 and hails from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabir.

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