Israel to compensate family of Palestinian who died after detention

Rare settlement agreed in case of Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who was subjected to force by IDF soldiers Israel has reached a settlement with the family of a Palestinian-American man who died after soldiers used force to detain him, in a rare case of compensation for a Palestinian claim of wrongdoing by Israeli forces. Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, 78, was detained at a checkpoint in Jiljilya in the occupied West Bank in January and "apprehended after resisting a check", according to an Israel Defence For...