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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-doctor-to-join-autopsy-of-pa-official-who-died-after-clash/
Senior Palestinian Official Dies after Clash with IDF Soldiers at Demonstration
(Times of Israel) Senior Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein, who served as deputy minister for prisoner affairs, died after clashing with IDF soldiers on Wednesday afternoon at a demonstration in the West Bank. Abu Ein, 55, collapsed at the site and was evacuated by ambulance. Footage from the demonstration showed him lying on the ground and clutching his chest. The IDF said it had been preventing the entrance of some 200 "rioters" into an Israeli settlement when the clash occurred. Abu Ein, a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, was extradited from the U.S. to Israel in 1981 for a 1979 terrorist bombing in Tiberias that killed two Israeli teens and injured more than 30. He was released during a 1985 prisoner swap for three Israeli prisoners captured during the First Lebanon War.