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Source: http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2007/164-2007.html
NGO Calls to Investigate Torture by Palestinian Police in Gaza
[Palestinian Center for Human Rights-Gaza] A Fatah activist from Beit Hanoun, who was arrested on Nov. 13, stated: "A number of policemen... handcuffed me and covered my head with a sack. They... violently beat me using sticks, especially on my feet, for nearly half an hour. [At] Beit Hanoun Hospital... doctors asserted that I had sustained fractures to the feet." An activist from Khan Yunis, who was arrested on Nov. 13, stated: "Policemen took me to the interrogation center. They handcuffed and blindfolded me. They then violently beat me."