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<p>AL-KHALIL, (PIC)&#8211; The Palestinian  Prisoner Society (PPS) has issued a report documenting that 110  Palestinians were taken into custody, including 20 minors, as the  Israeli army escalated arrest operations and house raids across  Al-Khalil province in March 2011.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">”A spirit of retaliation and frightening  hostility emerged in the soldiers&#8217; treatment of those arrested from the  instance of arrest. Manifestations of extreme sadism emerged in the  method of arrest, interrogation and treatment, as well as abuses  contradicting the international humanitarian law and all humanitarian,  moral and religious values,” the report states.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The group declared that it was one of the  fiercest arrest campaigns carried out by the Israeli occupation forces,  affecting the entire province, as the forces searched throughout the  city and outlying villages using rifle butts and batons to assault  civilians, and using a ”crush and blast” policy as they detained  residents inside rooms and ravaged through houses in searches.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Some of those arrested had testified under  oath to the PPS&#8217;s attorney that their hands were broken after they were  beaten and dragged to the Karm Tsur settlement, where soldiers  ”entertained themselves by torturing them”. One man said soldiers pushed  the upper half of his body out of a military jeep and accelerated the  car&#8217;s movement and began painfully beating him and his brother in the  chest.</p>
<div style="font-size:10pt;">Prisoner Atta Saeed Abu Rumooz said he  was blind-folded and cuffed for 48 hours as soldiers fiercely battered  him and took his photograph as he was beaten.</p>
<p>Perhaps the worst  scenario is what happened to Waheeb Samir Abu Marya. Soldiers beat him  and crucified him as he was cuffed and terrorized him by placing near  him a box of explosives. The soldiers also photographed Yousef Mahmoud  al-Awadiwa as they left him to freeze in the rain for hours as they  laughed in mockery. Another victim told the PPS that he has almost  completely lost his hearing after an investigator slapped him.</p></div>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The PPS said that most of the 20 minors of  less than 18 years were arrested and taken to the Etzion settlement  near Bethlehem, where investigators tried to elicit by force false  testimonies that they were guilty of throwing stones.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The PPS accounted that several people  suffering from various illnesses were arrested, beaten and dragged,  including a paralyzed man. It highlighted that article 91 of the fourth  Geneva convention protects the treatment and the freedom of ill people.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">10 detainees from Al-Khalil were transferred to administrative detention during the month, the PPS reported.</p>
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