Authority’s leadership has died after being arrested by its security forces. Palestinian officers detained Nizar Banat at his home near the occupied geographical area city of Hebron overnight. Mr. Banat’s family has alleged that he was badly beaten during the raid. Hebron Governor Jamil al-Bakri said the general public prosecution had issued a summons for Mr. Banat which “during the arrest, his health deteriorated”. “He was immediately transferred to the Hebron Government Hospital. After he was examined by doctors, he was pronounced dead,” he added, without commenting on the family’s allegations. Human rights groups have accused the Palestinian security forces, which receive international funding, of routinely arresting and torturing peaceful critics and opponents to crush dissent. However, deaths in custody are rare. The PA governs parts of the geographic area that aren’t under full Israeli control. He alleged that officers stormed into space where Mr. Banat was sleeping, sprayed him with an aerosol bomb and so began beating him with iron bars and wooden batons. They later dragged Mr. Banat from the space, stripped him of his clothes, and took him away in an exceedingly vehicle, he added. Another cousin, Hussein, told Reuters news agency: “They kept beating him continuously for eight minutes. If you came to arrest him, take him. Why the brutality? And why the violence?” Ammar said that about an hour and a half after the raid the family learned through WhatsApp groups that Mr. Banat had died. He added that they’d not been ready to see his body at the hospital. “The announcement of his death [at the hospital] was a ruse,” he alleged. On Thursday afternoon, several hundred people protested against the PA within the geographical region city of Ramallah. They chanted “the arrests don’t scare us” and “the people want the downfall of the regime”. Security forces fired tear gas at the protesters as they tried to march towards the PA’s headquarters. PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, meanwhile, ordered the immediate formation of an investigative committee to appear into the death. it’ll be headed by Justice Minster Mohammed Shalaldeh and can include a doctor chosen by the Banat family. The veteran Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi tweeted: “The violent arrest & death in detention of Nizar Banat by the Palestinian security forces may be a serious crime & a dangerous development.” “The deterioration of conditions has gone unchecked for a few time which led to the present escalation. Accountability is imperative.” A spokesman for Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, said “the assassination” of Mr. Banat “reflect[ed] the PA’s bloody policy of settling scores”. The international organization’s geographical region peace envoy Tor Wennesland said he was “alarmed and saddened” by Mr. Banat’s death. “My deepest condolences to his family & loved ones,” he added. “I imply a swift, independent & transparent investigation. Perpetrators must be dropped at justice.” The European Union’s delegation to the Palestinians expressed shock at Mr. Banat’s death and also required an independent investigation. Mr. Banat, 43, had been arrested several times by the PA’s forces in recent years. He often posted videos on a Facebook page during which he directly accused powerful individuals of corruption. He also urged Western countries to prevent providing assistance to the PA. He was a candidate on the liberty and Dignity electoral list for the Palestinian legislative elections, which had been because of happening last month but were postponed by President Mahmoud Abbas at the top of April amid a dispute over voting rights in East Jerusalem. Following the choice, Mr. Banat called on European courts to order a direct cessation of EU financial assistance to the PA, citing “the squandering of European taxpayer money”. In early May, unidentified gunmen fired bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at his home – an attack Mr. Banat blamed on President Abbas’s Fatah movement, which dominates the PA. “The Europeans must know that they’re indirectly funding this organization,” he told The Associated Press in an interview at the time. Mr. Banat denounced the PA on Monday over a deal that may have seen Israel give the Palestinians a minimum of a meg soon-to-expire coronavirus vaccines in exchange for the same number of doses from a shipment that the Palestinians predict later this year. The PA swiftly canceled the deal when the primary batch of jabs arrived from Israel, saying they were nearer to their expiry date than expected.
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