Incidents Of Terror
Dramatically Decline
Tel Aviv (JTA) — There has been and 10 toward the end of June.
a dramatic reduction in the num-
In Israel, the totals dropped
ber of terrorist attacks against Is- from 38 in April to 15 in May, and
raelis during the past four five in June.
months, according to the Israel
Lt. Gen. Barak devoted some
Defense Force chief of staff
of his testimony before the com-
Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak said the mittee to a discussion of recent
reduction of violent attacks ap- developments in southern
plied in Israel proper, through- Lebanon, where violence has es-
out the territories and in the calated over the past month.
autonomous areas of the Gaza
Two Israeli soldiers were killed
Strip and Jericho district.
in southern Lebanon this week,
Speaking before the Knesset's
Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee recently, Lt. Gen.
Barak said the downward trend
began in March and applied also
to riots and disturbances.
He cited the efforts of the re-
cently formed Palestinian police
operating in Gaza and Jericho for
contributing to this downward
spiral of violence.
At the meeting of the Knesset
committee, an aide to Lt. Gen. victims of attacks by the Islam-
Barak gave a detailed breakdown ic fundamentalist Hezbollah
of the number of violent incidents movement.
in recent months.
Lt. Gen. Barak told the com-
In the West Bank, there were mittee that Hezbollah, which is
108 acts of violence in April, 78 militantly opposed to the Israeli-
in May and 47 through the end Palestinian peace initiative, was
hitting back after suffering a se-
of June.
In Gaza, there were 120 vio- ries of painful blows which had
lent incidents in April, 48 in May forced it to go on the defensive.
Lt. Gen. Barak said
the downward trend
began in March and
applied also to riots
and disturbances.
Israel Rejects Charge
Of Palestinian Torture
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Israel De-
fense Force has denied allega-
tions contained in Amnesty
International's annual report on
worldwide human-rights viola-
tions that Israeli security forces
systematically torture Palestin-
ian prisoners.
According to the report, which
was released last week, Pales-
tinian prisoners in 1993 were
"systematically tortured or ill-
treated during interrogation" by
Israeli authorities.
The report said the methods of
torture used during interrogation
of Palestinian prisoners includ-
ed beatings, sleep deprivation
and solitary confinement.
The Amnesty report also con-
demned Palestinian armed fac-
tions such as Hamas, Islamic
Jihad and the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, not-
ing that they repeatedly "com-
mitted grave human rights
abuses, including torture and de-
liberate and arbitrary killings."
These groups last year killed
more than 100 fellow Palestini-
ans who were suspected of col-
laborating with Israeli authorities
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or who were attacked for their po-
litical views, according to the re-
port.
The report also detailed oth-
er instances where Palestinians
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The Amnesty report
also condemned
Palestinian armed
factions.
eluding one instance where 12
Palestinians were shot in the legs
by alleged members of Al Fatah,
the mainstream faction of the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion, apparently as punishment
for acts such as burglary.
At least 35 Israeli civilians,
along with 25 members of the
IDF and other security forces,
were killed as a result of armed
Palestinian attacks during 1993,
according to the report.
In 1992, the Amnesty report
said, a total of 38 Israelis were
killed in Palestinian attacks.
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