The daughter of Omar Assad, a Palestinian-American man who died in Israeli detention in the occupied West Bank earlier this year has called for a thorough US investigation into his death. In an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Wednesday, Hala Hamad described her father as someone who tried to “lead a good and simple life”. Returning from a night of playing cards with his cousins in his home village of Jiljilya on 12 January, Assad, 78, was dragged out from his car, handcuffed, blindfolded and gagged by Israeli forces. The soldiers left him to die at an abandoned house. A post-mortem f…