Security forces of the rival Palestinian governments routinely use torture and arbitrary arrests, among other tactics, to quash dissent by peaceful activists and political rivals, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The charges come in a new report released by the New York-based watchdog, following a two-year investigation that included interviews with nearly 150 people, many of them ex-detainees. It accused both the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Islamic militant Hamas in Gaza of using "machineries of repression" to stifle criticism. Human Rights Watch also said the systematic use of torture could amount to a crime against humanity under the United Nations' Convention against Torture, and called on countries that provide funding to Palestinian law enforcement to suspend their assistance. Among the alleged abuses: whipping people's feet, forcing detainees into painful stress positions, hoisting up people's arms behind their backs with rope and coercing suspects into granting access to their mobile phones and social media accounts. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5377784,00.html Both PA and Hamas security forces use 'machineries of repression,' including torture and arbitrary arrests, to stifle criticism. Crimes against humanity !!
last week, another very brutal violence from the Palesh-tinian security forces against demonstrators in Hebron.
Muslims are only against torture, when they are on the receiving end. Muhammed and his boys used torture all the time., and anything Big Mo. did is OK.
