The policy on torture appears to show that Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian PM, is in effective control of the West Bank's security forces. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
It had been billed as a beauty contest tailor-made for the Middle East: a pageant in which the contestants would not dress immodestly and the swimsuit round would be dropped. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Protesters wave Palestinian flags during a protest against the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
He said openly and clearly that from that point on they would stop all torture, including humiliation of prisoners ... He recognised there had been torture but said it was a practice not a policy.
After the torture stopped the number of arrests increased
The [Central Intelligence] Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services.
The notion that this agency somehow runs other intelligence services … is simply wrong