The Governor of Hebron Jibreen Al-Bakri today said in a statement regarding the death of Nizar Banat in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron that, “Following issuing a summons from the Public Prosecution to arrest the citizen Nizar Khalil Muhammad Banat, a force from the security services arrested him at dawn today, and during the arrest his health deteriorated. He was immediately transferred to the Hebron Government Hospital.”

The statement added. “After he was examined by doctors, he was pronounced dead. The Public Prosecution office started procedures in accordance with the law immediately after it was informed of the incident.”

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency