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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					07/04/2011 &#8211; 09:46 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">RAMALLAH, (PIC)&#8211; Human Rights Watch  has called on the United States and European Union to set conditions  before giving more aid to the Palestinian Authority, as the West Bank  authority continues to use abusive and repressive practices against news  reporters and other Palestinians in the West Bank.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The calls were made by Joe Stork, HRW&#8217;s  director in the Mideast and North Africa during a press conference he  held in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he presented a report by  the NGO on abuses by the PA security agencies against journalists.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Stork recommended that the US and EU stop  supporting all PA security agencies unless they take significant steps  to investigate and prosecute all security officials responsible for  torture. He also urged the PA to publically announce its agreement to  accept the conditions.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Meanwhile, the Change and Reform bloc of  the Palestinian Legislative Council has said in a fresh statement that  court martials ordered by the Fatah authority in the West Bank targeting  Hamas supporters threatens to render reconciliation efforts a failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The statement describes Fatah calls to  reconcile with Hamas as a sham, saying the calls are in complete  contradiction with ”the elements of unity to which [Hamas] aspires”.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">”Security coordination [with the Israeli  occupier] has not left the mentality of the Abbas authority,” the  statement reads, demanding that the PA ”creates the climate” for  reconciliation by ending political arrests and court martials against  Hamas supporters.</p>
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