(Makor Rishon-Hebrew) Yishai Friedman - Last month, in a case originally filed 15 years ago, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that immediately after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority established a cruel mechanism which kidnapped, beat and tortured Palestinians and Israeli citizens who were suspected of aiding Israel. The 2,000-page ruling documented the testimonies of tens of Palestinians who described the tortures they suffered at the hands of Arafat's PA from its establishment until 2002. Many of the plaintiffs were Palestinians who had escaped from the PA after Israel retook control of the West Bank in 2002. Some had been held prisoner in Arafat's Mukata'a headquarters in Ramallah. "One of the plaintiffs claimed that there was less torture under ISIS," said a lawyer who worked on the case. "They would decapitate a person and that would be the end of it, while those imprisoned by the PA would be tortured for years." Some of the plaintiffs testified that senior PA officials would accuse innocent people of aiding Israel in order to take over their money and property.
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