Intra Palestinian abuses

West Bank and Gaza, a cycle of retribution churns
Fatah, Hamas security forces accused of abusing Palestinian foes
By Joel Greenberg Tribune foreign correspondent
October 23, 2007
SHUYUKH, West Bank - Amer Halayqa recalled that he was rousted out of bed with a punch in the face, then dragged in his pajamas to a prison van that transported him to a Palestinian security center in Hebron, where he was shoved out of the vehicle after being hooded and handcuffed.During more than three weeks of interrogation, he said, he was shackled in painful positions, occasionally beaten and subjected to other abuse.Halayqa, 26, a Hamas follower, had been jailed previously without trial by Israel, but in August he was rounded up by the security forces of President Mahmoud Abbas in a crackdown on the Islamic group in the West Bank. Scores of police and security men descended on Halayqa's village near Hebron, seizing more than a dozen people.
"The Israelis would at least give you time to get dressed and say goodbye to your family," Halayqa said in an interview, recounting his arrest and interrogation. "It's harder to take when the injustice is from your own people and not from your enemy, the occupation."