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Hijazi autopsy shows he was shot at least 20 times

The initial autopsy report of Mu'taz Hijazi shows that he was shot all over the body at least 20 times and that his death was caused by severe bleeding from his chest, neck, hands, legs, lungs, and heart, according to the Ma'an news agency.

Muhammad Mahmoud, a lawyer for the Addameer Palestinian prisoners' rights group, was quoted in the news agency saying that "bullets struck Hijazi in the chest area, including heart and lungs, six hit his neck area, one hit his shoulder, one hit the right thigh, two hit his right arm, one hit his pelvis, three hit his right leg and four hit his left leg."