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Fatah official speaking in Abbas’ name: ‎Minister Abu Ein was “eliminated… by the ‎enemies of peace and humanity”‎

‎“President Mahmoud Abbas and the ‎members of the [PA] leadership received ‎condolences last night [Dec. 11, 2014] for ‎the death as a Martyr of Fatah ‎Revolutionary Council member and Head ‎of the Committee to Resist Settlements ‎and the Wall Minister Ziyad Abu Ein at the ‎Presidential Headquarters in Ramallah… ‎Fatah Central Committee Member Abbas ‎Zaki said: ‘In the name of the President, ‎the PLO Executive Committee and the ‎Fatah Central Committee; in the name of ‎the government and Abu Ein’s family: We ‎are deeply grieved by the death of the ‎Fatah leader and knight of Palestine, who ‎was eliminated at a most sensitive ‎moment by murderous criminals, the ‎enemies of peace and humanity, and the ‎enemies of Palestine.”‎
From WAFA, official PA news agency

Note: Ziad Abu Ein died on Dec. 10, 2014 at ‎a demonstration in the West Bank that ‎turned violent. Immediately following his ‎death, PA and Fatah leaders claimed that ‎Abu Ein was murdered. Footage from the ‎event shows Abu Ein in an altercation with ‎an Israeli soldier who grabbed Abu Ein by ‎the neck, and later shows Abu Ein on the ground clutching his chest in pain. The ‎autopsy, which was overseen by Israeli and ‎Palestinian pathologists, revealed that the ‎cause of death was a heart attack, but ‎disagreement remains over the extent to which the altercation with Israeli forces may have caused ‎the heart attack. Palestinians have ‎continued to describe Abu Ein's death as a ‎��"murder" and "assassination" by Israel.‎

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