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The head of the Palestinian Authority committee against the separation wall and settlements died Wednesday after Israeli soldiers assaulted him in a village near Ramallah, committee sources said.
Minister Ziad Abu Ain died after an Israeli soldier beat him on the chest with his helmet in the village of Turmsayya in the Ramallah district, the director of the committee’s information center, Jamil al-Barghouthi, told Ma’an.
Abu Ein also suffered severe tear gas inhalation as Israeli soldiers fired canisters in the area.
A Palestinian security source told AFP that Israeli forces beat Abu Ein with the butts of their rifles and their helmets during a protest march.
He lost consciousness and was taken to Ramallah Public Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Ziad Abu Ein, a minister without portfolio, was rushed by ambulance from the scene, in the village of Turmusiya, but died en route to the nearby Palestinian city of Ramallah.
Violent clashes occurred overnight between Jewish and Palestinian in the Shilo area. The clashes occurred after the settlers threw stones at cars and destroyed olive trees.
Following the clashes, the council heads of several Palestinian villages in the West Bank as well as the Yesh Din organization petitioned Israel’s High Court to evacuate a nearby Jewish settlement, saying that it “serves as a center of illegal activity with the goal of expelling Palestinians from their land.”
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