Palestinian prisoner died in custody at Jerusalem hospital, PA says

A Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody last night, the Palestinian Authority’s prisoners’ affairs office reports.

Abdelrahman al-Sabateen, 21, died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, the PA office says.

Sabateen, a resident of Husan, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was detained on June 24, the office says. It’s unclear why or from where he was arrested.

The office cites Sabateen’s family as saying he did not show any serious health problems during a court hearing on November 25.

The statement adds that Sabateen had suffered an unspecified abdominal wound a year before he was arrested, but “his condition later stabilized.”

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