[ 20/10/2010 - 01:11 PM ] Al-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Director of the intelligence apparatus in Al-Khalil city Mahmoud Hamdan proudly admitted that the Palestinian authority's security apparatuses in the West Bank use torture against Palestinian prisoners, describing torture as a policy that cannot be dispensed with.
Informed sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Hamdan affirmed that many countries use torture intensively, although they are signatories to agreements against torture.
"The torture we use against prisoners is legal and cannot be renounced," the source quoted Hamdan as saying.
Hamdan claimed that the PA security forces in the West Bank are alert to any move made by what he described as unruly elements, in reference to the Palestinian resistance fighters and Hamas cadres.
Hamdan is notorious for his extreme hatred for all resistance movements, especially Hamas and he is responsible for suspending the release of detainees who received court decisions.
In another context, a number of new bank employees said that the banks they work for asked them to obtain a good conduct certificate from the PA security apparatuses within three months from the date of their appointment or they will lose their jobs.
They told the PIC reporter that this arbitrary measure was taken by the PA monetary authority and it means that the bank employees are now treated the same as the civil servants in the government sector.
The good conduct certificate hangs like the Sword of Damocles over the necks of anyone who is not affiliated with Fatah faction in the West Bank and was used to dismiss thousands of civil servants from their jobs, most of them from Hamas.
In a separate incident, the PA security militias kidnapped 20 Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Salfit and Al-Khalil, according to local sources on Wednesday.
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