The body of a Palestinian worker was found by Israeli police yesterday lying between gravestones in a cemetery in Kfar Saba, central Israel.
The body, which was sent to Jerusalem for an autopsy, was that of a West Bank man who had no permit to enter Israel, according to a police statement cited by Israel’s public radio.
Later, Israeli Radio reported unnamed sources as saying the body belonged to a Palestinian from the city of Qalqilia, in the north of the West Bank. The man was named as Mohamed Al-Faraeni.
The station said the man is thought to have suffered a heart attack.
Israeli intelligence organisations have warned that extremist Jews might carry out attacks against Palestinians after the death of four rabbis and a policeman inside a Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem last week.