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Israeli Courts to Let Palestinians Sue PA for Torture
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - 51 Palestinians tortured by the Palestinian Authority for cooperating with Israel can sue the PA in Israeli courts for damages, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Wednesday. According to the court, PA officials tortured the Palestinians by "beating them on all parts of the body, hitting them with lead pipes, extinguishing cigarettes on their bodies, hanging them in torture positions for hours and starving them." Some "were also exposed to extreme heat and cold, or extremely hot or cold water was dumped on them," and authorities ordered doctors to pull out healthy teeth. Notably, the court said that if Palestinians were cooperating with Israel to thwart terrorist attacks on Israelis, the PA was also obligated to assist in such efforts under the Oslo Accords.