Abu Ein died on Wednesday shortly after an Israeli border policeman shoved and grabbed him by the throat during a protest in the occupied West Bank.
Thousands of Palestinians have attended his funeral in Ramallah on Thursday. Israel has beefed up its security forces in the West Bank as fresh protests were expected over the minister's death.
The head of the Palestinian civil affairs, Hussein Al Sheikh, told a Palestinian radio that the autopsy, which was carried out overnight, showed Abu Ein died because of a beating by Israeli soldiers and inhaling large amounts of tear gas, adding that Israelis delayed his transfer to the hospital.
He also said the Israeli forensic expert, who was present at the postmortem, agreed to the findings of the autopsy.
However, the Israeli side rejected agreeing to the findings.
"Israeli officials said that heart attack was the reason why the minister died, adding that it might have been brought on when was he grabbed in the neck by an Israeli soldier," Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from West Jerusalem, said.
Tyab said that two Jordanian and one Israeli expert were present at the autopsy, which was concluded in the early hours of Thursday.......................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/12/palestine-minister-autopsy-results-disputed-2014121161857231665.html
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to “incite” the Palestinians by claiming that Israel killed PA Minister Ziad Abu Ein, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Thursday...
ReplyDeleteLiberman issued a statement saying that the transparent autopsy conducted at the Abu Dis Forensics Institute in the presence of representatives form the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Israel determined that he died of a heart attack. .............http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Liberman-Abbas-using-PA-ministers-death-to-incite-and-fan-the-flames-384409