Jan. 12 (UPI) —<\/span> An 80-year-old Palestinian man died while in custody of Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The man, identified as Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad, still had a plastic restraining zip tie on one wrist when his body was found in a village outside of Ramallah, Palestinian officials said.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n As’ad was stopped by Israeli soldiers in the village of Jiljilya as he was making his way home after visiting relatives, the Palestinian health ministry said.<\/p>\n A resident who was walking around the neighborhood later found him unresponsive and a physician tried unsuccessfully to revive him. He was then taken to a Ramallah hospital where his body was being held until an autopsy can be performed.\n<\/p>\n As’ad’s brother told Haaretz that he suffered from respiration and heart problems.<\/p>\n “I don’t understand how a man that age can be considered a danger,” he said. “They handcuffed him and shoved him. That’s abuse … I have no doubt what he went through caused his death.”<\/p>\n The Israeli military confirmed As’ad had been held by soldiers after resisting a security inspection, and the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division is set to launch a formal investigation.\n<\/p>\n “The IDF will investigate this event in a thorough and professional manner, acting in line with our values and protocols,” Lt. Col. Amnon Shefler said.<\/p>\n Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said As’ad was “lynched by occupation soldiers” and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it would file complaints to all international bodies, including the international court.<\/p>\n U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a news briefing Wednesday that the United States had asked for clarification from Israel regarding the death of As’ad, who was a U.S. citizen.\n<\/p>\n “We support a thorough investigation into the circumstances,” Price said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An 80-year-old Palestinian man died after being detained by Israeli military forces in the West Bank on Wednesday. File\u00a0Photo by Debbie Hill\/UPI | License Photo Jan. 12 (UPI) — An 80-year-old Palestinian man died while in custody of Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The man, identified as Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad, still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nAn 80-year-old Palestinian man died after being detained by Israeli military forces in the West Bank on Wednesday. File\u00a0Photo by Debbie Hill\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n