Palestinian man dies in Israeli detention

Israeli troops handed the body of a 58-year-old Palestinian man, Ayman Rajeh Abed, to Palestinian health authorities on Monday.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said it had received the body of Abed from the village of Kafr Dan, just outside Jenin, after he was arrested around dawn on Monday. The director of Jenin’s Wissam Bakr hospital said the body bore signs of beatings and torture.

The Israeli military said Abed had been detained during counterterrorism operations and experienced a “cardiac event” on arrival at a detention facility. He was given initial treatment by medical staff from the military, before being evacuated to the hospital in Jenin.