Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal bombing

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West Bank RAMALLAH, future" and led authorities to several weapons caches. (AP) - One of the men was hoswith failure pitalized kidney The agency declined to adof and 11 broken ribs. Another was allegations dress specitic nearly unrecognizable "inhis saying only that wife when he was wheeled into a terrogations are conducted in courtroom.

A third was stitched accordance with the law and are up after being attacked by a seaimed at protecting the State of curity dog. Israel and its citizens from terThen the three Palestinians ror attacks." were returned to their Israell interrosators.

They had been 'Severe torture' swept up in a sprawling manIn September, days after his hunt launched after a roadside bomb killed a 17-year-old Israell Arbeed was taken to a hospital in critical condition. girl and wounded her father and brother as they hiked down to a Sahar Francis, the head of the Palestinian spring last August in the occurights Addameer pied West Bank. the group and a lawyer for The attack raised fears of a suspects, said Arbeed's intersophisticated militant cell that rogators beat him for 36 hours, The Associated Press might strike again, and Israell leaving him with kidney failIsraeli police push a man during a protest outside a hospital in Jerusalem where Samir Arbeed, a interrogators appear to have ure and 11 broken ribs.

He was treated it as a ticking timePalestinian suspect in a deadly West Bank bombing, is being treated in this Oct. 1, 2019 file photo. required a hospitalized and bomb Israeli and scenario.

Israel faces allegations of severely torturing three alleged Palestinian militants rounded up after the respirator after developing rare bombing in the occupied West Bank killed a 17-year-old girl in August.

Palestinian rights groups say pneumonia. was released there is strong evidence that from the hospital after three tion with Israel, which many Israeli Cabinet minister in 2001. loophole, knowing they will face they tortured several detainees weeks and returned to Shin Bet the Palestinians view as an in violation of Israeli and interfew consequences, if any. custody.

Committee national law. tension of the occupation.

The The Shin Bet said at the time Against Torture in Israel says rested dozens of its members The allegations against Israel latest torture allegations could that Arbeed "did not feel well" more 1,200 complaints add to the mounting pressure on - suspected militants as well as than are the most serious to come to during interrogation and was light in years, President Mahmoud Abbas to politicians and student leaders. and the rights against the Shin Bet have been taken to a hospital, without The 2.5 million Palestinians they filed since 2001, without a sinsay groups follow through on those threats. elaborating.

Israeli media said gle case going to trial. Only one in the West Bank live under loosening of constraints two dethe Justice Ministry was invesIsraeli military rule, and decades after the Israeli Supreme criminal investigation has been A frenzied manhunt tigating.

The ministry did not tainees can be held for months launched, over a 2017 case inCourt outlawed most forms of respond to requests for comThe Shin Bet launched a mas. volving alleged rape, and it is torture, or years without charge under a practice known as administraLawvers and family members sive manhunt after the Aug.

23 While Arbeed's hospitaliza bombing killed 17-year-old Rina tive detention.

Israel says such of the three main suspects say The allegations come at a sention was widely reported at the Shnerb and seriously woundthey were tortured to the point sitive time following the release measures are needed to prevent time, Francis said his alleged ed her father and older brother. of being hospitalized. attacks without disclosing sensiSuch bombings, a hallmark of co-conspirators, Barghouti and Mideast initiative, which heavitive intelligence. other Palestinians swept up by Hanatsheh, were also severely Palestinian upthe 2000-2005 ly favors Israel and would allow Israel's Shin Bet Internal rising, have been rare in recent 44-vear-old Samer Arbeed as the it to annex large parts of the Bayan, Hanatsheh's The Palestinians threatened, beaten, forced into mastermind of the attack and said she hardly recognized him Authorities blamed the attack have rejected the plan, and spothe bombmaker.

It said Qassem painful stress positions and dewhen she saw him 60 days after on the Popular Front for the clashes erupted Barghouti, 22, took part in the nied sleep. Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP, across the West Bank in recent a leftist political party that has "He was brought into court Supreme Court ruling forbids and that Walid Hanatsheh, in a wheelchair," she said.

"He Western-backed was a senior commander in the such torture. But the law allows an armed wing.

Israel, the U.S. looked very old, his beard was and the European Union consid. group's armed wing. interrogators to defend the use er it a terrorist group because of The Shin Bet, also known as of force when there is fear of an has also been accused of torturplucked from several places and ing prisoners, has responded to high-profile attacks going back the Israeli Security Agency, said his eyes were deep inside his imminent attack. the decades, including plane hijack. interrogations helped foil the plan by threatening to end Rights groups say interrogahead.

He was not himself," she tors routinely make use of the said. ings and the assassination of an its longtime security coordinaattacks planned for the

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"Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal bombing," Telegraph, 11 February 2020. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2020-009. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2020-009