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February 24th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Issa Qaraqea made the remarks on Saturday, hours after Israeli officials alleged Arafat Jaradat, 30, had died of cardiac arrest in Israel’s Magiddo prison.
“Our information was that Jaradat was being interrogated and then he died. Therefore we call for an international investigation into his death that may have resulted from torture,” Reuters quoted Qaraqea as saying.
Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, said Jaradat suffered from various health problems prior to his arrest, including backaches and injuries to his leg and stomach, sustained from a rubber bullet and a tear gas canister.
But the chairman of the West Bank-based Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, an association that supports Palestinians in Israeli prisons, said Jaradat did not suffer from any prior illness.
“Israel was responsible for his life,” Qadoura Fares added.
Jaradat was arrested on February 18 on suspicion he was involved in hurling stones at Israeli soldiers.
More than 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial. Four of these prisoners– Ayman Sharawneh, Samer al-Issawi, Jaafar Ezzedine, and Tareq Qaa’dan — have been on hunger strike for months.
Several demonstrations have been held across the Palestinian territories to show solidarity with the four men, whose health is deteriorating. The inmates were admitted to hospital on Friday.
The prisoners have been on hunger strike for months to protest against their administrative detention, a controversial practice used by Tel Aviv that allows the Israeli authorities to incarcerate Palestinians indefinitely without charging them or holding a trial.
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