The Palestinian Authority regularly tortured and abused both Israelis and Palestinians suspected of cooperating with Israel, states a precedent-setting Israeli ruling released on Wednesday. The ruling documented dozens of cases involving extreme measures used against those accused of collaborating with Israeli security forces.
The court ordered the Palestinian Authority to compensate the victims. The amount of compensation has not yet been set by the court, which only ruled that the PA has the obligation to compensate the plaintiffs who were illegally imprisoned, tortured and in some cases, kidnapped first. [...]
A clear pattern of the PA security forces' actions over the years emerges from the ruling. In a few cases, the victims were summoned for a “five-minute” talk, arrested and held for months without a trial or access to legal representation. The torture methods they describe are usually similar, and include severe beatings, sleep deprivation, pulling and breaking the detainees' teeth, preventing them from bathing or using the bathroom and constant threats of death.
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