Palestinian worker chased to death by Israeli policemen

Tuesday August 28, 2007 21:31 by Amin Abuwardeh – IMEMC

Palestinian medical sources reported on Tuesday that a Palestinian worker died after he was chased by Israeli policemen, in Israel. The worker, Fahim Mustafa Hamdan, 45, died after attempting to hide in a yard totally exposed to the extreme summer heat.

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Hi family reported that Israeli policemen chased him and a group of Palestinian workers for a long distance but when he entered an exposed yard he tried to rest in an exposed area under the sun and suffered from sunstroke (heatstroke).

He was moved to Belenson Israeli hospital, in Tel Aviv, and was officially declared dead. His body was transferred back to his village, Salem, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Hundreds of residents took off to the streets chanting slogans expressing anger against the Israeli police and military.

Several human rights groups and institutions in Nablus slammed the Israeli violations against poor workers who are trying to bring food to their children while Israel is imposing siege over the city and the Palestinian territories.

Shaher Sa’ad, secretary-general of the General Workers Union in Palestine, said that Hamdan has a family of seven, and he is their only source of livelihood.

Translated by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

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