SOFIA: A Palestinian activist wanted by Israel was found dead Friday in Bulgaria, local police and the Palestinian Authority said.
Omar Nayef Zayed, 51, was discovered in the courtyard of the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia, police said. Bulgarian radio reported that he had fallen from the fourth floor.
A senior Palestinian Authority official said that Nayef “was discovered with serious torso injuries and died before emergency services arrived,” official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), of which Nayef was a member, cited in a statement his family as calling his death an “assassination.”
It said that Nayef, originally from Jenin in the West Bank, had sought refuge in the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia two months ago and had “received threats.”
He was convicted in 1986 over a murder case. He fled to Bulgaria in 1994 and married a local woman with whom he had three children.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced the formation of a special commission of enquiry to look into his death, Wafa said.
Separately, a Palestinian journalist accused by Israel of being a Hamas activist and held without charge has agreed to end his three-month long hunger strike, his family and lawyers said on Friday.
Mohammad Al-Qiq, who was detained by Israel in November, was being treated in a hospital in northern Israel when he ended his 94 day hunger strike.
Omar Nayef Zayed, 51, was discovered in the courtyard of the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia, police said. Bulgarian radio reported that he had fallen from the fourth floor.
A senior Palestinian Authority official said that Nayef “was discovered with serious torso injuries and died before emergency services arrived,” official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), of which Nayef was a member, cited in a statement his family as calling his death an “assassination.”
It said that Nayef, originally from Jenin in the West Bank, had sought refuge in the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia two months ago and had “received threats.”
He was convicted in 1986 over a murder case. He fled to Bulgaria in 1994 and married a local woman with whom he had three children.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced the formation of a special commission of enquiry to look into his death, Wafa said.
Separately, a Palestinian journalist accused by Israel of being a Hamas activist and held without charge has agreed to end his three-month long hunger strike, his family and lawyers said on Friday.
Mohammad Al-Qiq, who was detained by Israel in November, was being treated in a hospital in northern Israel when he ended his 94 day hunger strike.
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