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JERUSALEM, February 25, 2014 (WAFA) – Jihad Abdul-Rahman At-Tawil, 47, died Tuesday in an Israeli hospital of injuries he sustained after being violently assaulted by Israeli soldiers while in Beersheba Israeli prison.

While serving his three-month term sentence in Beersheba Israeli prison, At-Tawil was violently assaulted and sprayed with gas by Israeli soldiers. After losing his consciousness, At-Tawil was admitted into an Israeli hospital, where he fell into a coma.

At-Tawil was sentenced to a three-month term imprisonment for allegedly driving a car without a permit at the end of the previous year, according to his family.

After At-Tawil had lost his consciousness at that time as a result of being assaulted by Israeli soldiers using spray gas, his family refused to sign his discharging papers until they could make sure his situation is stable enough to be discharged.

Minister of Prisoners Affairs Issa Qaraqe condemned this ‘ugly crime’ of killing the prisoner and held the Israeli authorities fully responsible for his death, calling on human rights organizations to promptly move and investigate the circumstances of his death and to put an end to Israeli measures against prisoners.

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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian prisoner who was assaulted by guards in an Israeli jail earlier in February has succumbed to his injuries, the man's brother said Tuesday.

Jihad Abd al-Rahman al-Taweel, a 47-year-old man from Jerusalem, died at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba late Monday, Sharif al-Taweel told Ma'an.

Jihad al-Taweel was hospitalized over two weeks ago after Israeli guards raided his ward and assaulted prisoners with pepper spray, a relative of the man said Friday.

Al-Taweel passed out during the assault, the relative said.

A week after al-Taweel was hospitalized, the Israeli prison service had asked his family to sign discharge papers, but the family refused to sign until they could ensure his situation had stabilized enough for him to be discharged.

The relative said that al-Taweel, who was a father of five, was serving a three-month sentence in Beersheba prison after Israeli police caught him driving a vehicle without a driver's license.