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Gruesome Revelations
Palestinian security forces arrest alleged culprits and
are accused of intense physical abuse.
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"They tied their hands be-
hind them and made them
stand or sit naked in one po-
sition for hours at a time.
They tied them to a rod and
turned them like chickens
on a spit. They beat them
with electric cables."
According to Bassem Eid,
director of the Palestinian
Human Rights Monitoring
Group, the Israeli army has
acknowledged that two of
the shootings with which
the Al-Khader Nine are
charged were perpetrated
° by Israeli undercover
8 troops.
One of the accused, Nabil
Salah, 25, was serving a
Bassem Eid, director of Palestinian Human
term in an Israeli prison
Rights Monitoring Group.
when he was supposed to
have murdered a man from
f you had heard them," said
Youssuf Musa, a 56-year-old his village on the way to the
Palestinian driver, "you mosque. Eid produced a certifi-
wouldn't have wept tears, you
would have wept blood."
Mr. Musa was talking to re-
porters after visiting his son,
Imad, in a Jericho prison. Imad,
25, was one of nine men in their
twenties and thirties from Al-
Khader, near Bethlehem, who
have been held by Palestinian
military intelligence for a year on
multiple murder charges. They
are alleged to have acted on or- cate from the International Red
ders from an Israeli secret ser- Cross confirming that Nabil
Salah was in Israeli custody at
vice agent code-named Morris.
It comes soon after a series of the time. In another case, one of
much publicized reports on the the supposed victims had com-
Israeli security forces attempting mitted suicide by drinking poi-
to regulate what's known as son in front of her husband's
family.
'mild torture" methods.
Eid was presenting his inde-
Palestinian human rights
workers contend, however, that pendent group's first annual re-
they were framed by a security port at the end of a month when
apparatus rurming out of control. two Arab land dealers have been
On February 7, Yassir Arafat's bludgeoned to death, apparently
justice minister, Freih Abu- by Palestinian policemen, for sell-
Medein, told the Palestinian par- ing land to Jews, and two Arab
liament that they were journalists have been arrested for
completely innocent and would doing their jobs.
The first of the journalists was
be released within 48 hours.
Three months later, they are still Daoud Kuttab, whose bizarre of-
behind bars. They were ar- fense was to screen Palestinian
raigned on April 13, and their tri- parliamentary debates live on his
al was due to resume on June 22. privately-owned Jerusalem tele-
The Palestinian authorities vision station. The elected legis-
now say that they have all con- lators have been known to
fessed, but the nine claim they criticize Arafat and his ministers.
were tortured until they signed
The second journalist was Mo-
false admissions.
hammed Zithikn, who works for
Youwuf Musa accused Pales- CBS. He was picked up in the
tinian intelligence officers of sex- West-Bank town of Ramallah
ually abusing them, beating while preparing a report on the
them, forting them to drink Kuttab case for the American
sewage water and threatening to network.
settle accounts with their fami-
The monitoring group press
lies.
conference was held in east
"TMy son] told me they raped Jerusalem. Bassem Eid, who
them with their batons," he said. made an international reputa-
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Now the
Palestinians are in
the glare of torture
reports.