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Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-hamas_greenbergoct23,1,7174894.story
In West Bank and Gaza, a Cycle of Retribution Churns Among Palestinians
[Chicago Tribune] Joel Greenberg - Amer Halayqa, 26, a Hamas follower, was rousted out of bed with a punch in the face, then dragged in his pajamas to a Palestinian security center in Hebron for more than three weeks of interrogation. "The Israelis would at least give you time to get dressed and say goodbye to your family," Halayqa said. "It's harder to take when the injustice is from your own people." Scores of Hamas activists have been rounded up in the West Bank in recent months. Accounts of abuses of prisoners in the West Bank and reports by Palestinian human-rights monitors suggest that law-enforcement practices in the area are seriously flawed, as in Gaza, where detainees from Fatah have reported violence by the Hamas security force.