President Mahmoud Abbas today called the family of a seven-year-old Palestinian boy who died on Thursday after his father said he had died of heart failure while being chased by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
President Abbas extended his extend heartfelt condolences and deep sympathy to the parents of Rayyan Yaser Suleimen.
Suleiman was coming home from school with other pupils in the village of Tuqu when troops gave chase, and he “died on the spot from fear,” his father Yasser said.
Earlier, Palestinian health officials said Rayyan had died on Thursday after falling from a significant height while running away from Israeli soldiers.
A medical official who inspected the boy’s body told Reuters that it bore no sign of physical trauma and that the death appeared consistent with heart failure.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)