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US asks Israel for clarification over death of citizen in West Bank
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LONDON, 13 January 2022, (TON): The US State Department confirmed that an 80-year-old Palestinian-American man found dead in the West Bank was a US citizen.
Palestinian officials and relatives said “Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad was found earlier after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid on an occupied West Bank village.”
The State Department said “had been in touch with the Israeli government for clarification over the death.”
His body was found in Jiljilya in the early morning with a plastic zip-tie still around one wrist.
The Israeli military said it had carried out an overnight operation in the village, and that a Palestinian was “apprehended after resisting a check.” It said he was alive when the soldiers released him.
It said in a statement “the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division is reviewing the incident, at the end of which the findings will be transferred to the Military General Advocate Corps.”
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