A 49-year-old Palestinian man held by Israel and claimed to have killed an Israeli soldier in the northern West Bank town of Yabad last month has denied these Israeli allegation, according to Khaled Mahajneh, an attorney with the Commission of Detainees Affairs.
He said that Nathmi Abu Bakr has told him after meeting him in his cell that he did not confess to killing of the Israeli soldier, calling allegations made by the Israeli media as false and fabricated.
Mahajneh said Abu Bakr was still undergoing investigation at the Israeli military Jalameh interrogation center in the north of the West Bank and that he did not admit responsibility for the killing of the soldier as claimed by the Israeli media despite very difficult and severe interrogation since his arrest one month ago.
He stressed that Abu Bakr is kept in very poor conditions inside a cell that lacks the minimum essentials for humans, adding that he is not allowed to go out of the cell and was prevented from meeting with his lawyer for more than two weeks.
The entire Abu Bakr family was detained after the killing of the soldier, who died after a stone was dropped on him during a raid of the town from the roof of the Abu Bakr home.
Abu Bakr told his lawyer that his Israeli interrogators are trying to get him to confess to something he did not do.
