YOUNG MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK AFTER BEATING BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES

32-year-old Ahmad Harb Ayyad was attacked and beaten by Israel's occupation forces near the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem early this week, suffering a heart attack and dying in hospital on the same day.

Most reports cite his death taking place either late on Monday July 4th or early on Tuesday July 5th, but according to his uncle Jamal Ayyad on July 5th his death took place 'the day before yesterday' - aka on Sunday July 3rd.

Ayyad, from the besieged Gaza Strip, was in a group of labourers who tried to cross the illegal Wall to go to work in Israel without permits. He was in the occupied West Bank on a regular medical referral to Nablus hospital and according to his uncle had similarly worked in earlier occasions.

Israel's occupation forces opened fire at them with live ammunition, wounding one, and used also tear-gas and physical force. According to Jamal Ayyad his nephew, because of his medical condition, was unable to run away, fell on the ground, was beaten by occupation soldiers and then taken in an ambulance first to a hospital in the nearby city of Tulkarem.

There he was diagnosed as having suffered a heart attack, and as needed treatment was not available at Tulkarem, was  moved to a better equipped hospital in the city of Nablus, where he was given treatment. At first he seemed well enough, was able to call to and talk with his wife, but after four hours there his heart stopped, he was revived, but his heart stopped again four hours later and he couldn't be revived again.

Israeli occupation allowed the return of his body to his family already on Tuesday and Ayyad, from Zaitoun, was buried east of Gaza City at the Shuhada graveyard. According to his uncle, his body was covered in bruises, apparently from the beating he received.

Ahmad Ayyad left behind himself a widow and two children aged 4 and 6.

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عائلة عياد تكشف لمصدر تفاصيل استشهاد نجلها إثر اعتداء قوات الاحتلال بطولكرم