A Palestinian prisoner has died in an Israeli jail, a Palestinian NGO said Tuesday.
"The Israeli prison authority told the Palestinian side that prisoner Raed al-Gaabari, 35, from Hebron died in Eshel Prison," Qadoura Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
He said that Israeli authorities were claiming that al-Gaabari had committed suicide.
There has been no official comment on the incident by either Palestinian or Israeli authorities.
Al-Gaabari was detained on July 26 following the disappearance and subsequent murder of three Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
Israel has detained around 2,000 Palestinians since the three settlers went missing on June 12.
There are 7,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to Palestinian estimates.
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