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(4) THE JAPAN TIMES MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009 5 world Hamas used Israeli attacks to kill Fatah rivals: reports Gaza City Gaza Strip International and Palestin- dent Commission on Human June 2007. During the conflict, the resistance to protect itself found later, the report said. Speaking at Shaqqura’s fu- Palestinian Center for Human AP ian human rights organiza- Rights, interviewed survivors both sides committed killings from the danger of spies dur- Most of the 17 had been held as neral, Hamas Parliament Rights mentioned ‘‘dozens’’ of ------------------------------------------ tions say there was a rash of and witnesses who said some and kidnappings, including ing wartime,’’ said Taher al- suspected collaborators. member Yunis al-Astal said such attacks. The day after Israeli tanks en- shootings and beatings across attacks were carried out by throwing some victims off Nunu, a spokesman for Gaza’s The group said some of the internal security needed to be Fatah spokesman Fahmi tered the Gaza Strip last Gaza during Israel’s offen- members of Hamas’ internal high-rise buildings. Hamas administration. ‘‘The 15 other people killed during given stricter instructions. Zaarir said 14 Fatah members month, masked Palestinians sive, voicing suspicions that security service. In the latest accusations of government confirms that it that period were snatched Hamas officials said they in Gaza were killed by Hamas opened fire on the al-Najar Hamas’ Islamic militants Amnesty International score-settling by Hamas dur- will show no mercy for collab- from their homes by gunmen, were investigating the case. during the Israeli offensive and family outside their home, used wartime chaos to target went further, saying Hamas ing Israel’s three-week offen- orators, who stab our people in some of whom claimed to be Hamas also accepted re- more than 160 were shot in the killing the father and wound- enemies, including activists militiamen engaged ina sive, Fatah says some of its the back, and they will be members of Hamas’ internal sponsibility for the killing of arms or legs or were beaten. ing 10 others, including two from the rival Fatah. ‘‘campaign of abductions, de- members were slain, others judged under the law.’’ security service. Some of Hasan al-Hijazi, who was shot He said hundreds of Fatah teenage girls and a 78-year-old Among examples reported liberate and unlawful killings, were shot in the arms or legs, A report from the Palestin- those slain turned up dead by three masked men Jan. 7. members were put under grandmother. by the rights groups, gunmen torture and death threats and many were placed under ian Center for Human Rights soon after, while others were Hamas later issued a state- house arrest, preventing some Ammar al-Najar, 25, a son dragged a man from a hospital against those they accuse of house arrest that prevented details 32 extrajudicial kill- found injured and later died of ment calling the killing a ‘‘mis- from fleeing from the Israeli of the victim, didn’t know who bed and another from his ‘collaborating’ with Israel, as them from fleeing areas under ings from the Dec. 27 start of wounds, it said. take,’’ the rights groups said. advance to safer places. Some the gunmen were, but he said grandfather’s house, then shot well as opponents and critics.’’ Israeli attack. the Israeli campaign to the Similar attacks have been ‘‘What happened was that who tried to leave their homes the family supports the Fatah them dead. A third died in a All three rights groups are Hamas has denied any in- end of January. reported since Israel halted its there was chaos, armed cha- were shot at, he said. movement and has had trou- hospital from beating and gun- urging Hamas leaders to in- volvement by members of its It said 17 of the dead were offensive Jan. 18. os,’’ said Subhia Juma at the Amnesty International said ble with the Gaza Strip’s rul- shot wounds after men who vestigate the allegations and security services but acknowl- among prisoners who fled Ga- On Feb. 6, 51-year-old Jamil Independent Commission for there was ‘‘no doubt’’ the wave ing Hamas group. said they were from Gaza se- prosecute those responsible. edges that Hamas fighters tar- za’s central prison after it was Shaqqura died in a hospital of Human Rights. of attacks was carried out by ‘‘My father ... tried to talk curity forces pulled him from Hamas and Fatah engaged geted suspected informers for damaged by an Israeli air- wounds from beating and tor- Juma’s group said gunmen ‘‘Hamas forces and militias, to them, but they didn’t talk. his home. in months of clashes in Gaza Israel. strike Dec. 28. As inmates ran ture, a week after he was — some masked, others in offi- as they are the only ones who They just started shooting,’’ he Two Gaza-based groups, before Hamas gunmen seized ‘‘The government distin- through the bombed-out walls, picked for interrogation by cial uniforms — severely beat are allowed to operate with said. The men wore no identi- the Palestinian Center for Hu- control of the territory after guishes between any violation gunmen were seen grabbing Hamas’ internal security, the or shot at the legs of at least such a degree of freedom fying symbols. man Rights and the Indepen- five days of street battles in of the law and actions taken by some, and their corpses were group said. 116 people. The report by the throughout Gaza.’’ Ex-Gitmo guard tells of abuse Former soldier recalls initial chaos at camp told ‘‘these are the worst ter- rorists in the world.’’ in one of the first public interviews with staff He said one medic punched a handcuffed prisoner in the San Juan Puerto Rico were housed in cages once used face for refusing to swallow a AP for Haitian migrants. liquid nutritional supplement, ------------------------------------------ Now President Barack Oba- and another bragged about Army Pvt. Brandon Neely was ma is committed to closing the cruelly stretching a prisoner’s scared when he took Guanta- prison and finding new ways of torn muscles during what was namo’s first shackled detain- handling the remaining 245 de- supposed to be physical thera- ees off a bus. tainees as well as any future py treatments. Told to expect vicious ter- terrorism suspects. Human He said detainees were rorists, he grabbed a trem- rights groups say his pledge to forced to submit to take show- bling, elderly detainee and adhere to long-established ers and defecate into buckets ground his face into the ce- laws and treaties governing in full view of female soldiers, ment — the first of a range of prisoner treatment is essen- against Islamic customs. humiliations he says he partic- tial if the U.S. hopes to prevent When a detainee yelled an ex- ipated in and witnessed. abuses in the future. pletive at a female guard, he Neely has now come for- ‘‘If Guantanamo has taught said a crew of soldiers beat the ward in this final year of the us anything, it’s the impor- man up and held him down so detention center’s existence, tance of abiding by the rule of AP that the woman could repeat- saying he wants to publicly air law,’’ said Jennifer Daskal, se- edly strike him in the face. his feelings of guilt and shame nior counterterrorism counsel ‘The stuff I did and the Neely says he feels about how some soldiers be- for Human Rights Watch. stuff I saw was wrong. ashamed for how he treated haved as the military handled Or as Neely put it last week, the elderly detainee the first the first alleged al-Qaida and ‘‘The stuff I did and the stuff I I just felt horrible. day. As he recalls it, the man Taliban members arriving at saw was just wrong.’’ Speaking out is a good made a movement to resist on the U.S. Navy base. Neely, a Texan who served his way to his cage, and he re- Change is gonna come: A Saudi woman stands outside a mosque in Riyadh on Saturday. Saudi Arabia’s king has appointed a His account, one of the first for a year in Iraq after his six way to deal with this.’ sponded by shoving the shack- female deputy minister, the highest government position a Saudi woman has attained. AP by a former guard describing months at Guantanamo, re- BRANDON NEELY led man headfirst to the abuses at Guantanamo, de- ceived an honorable discharge ground, bruising and scraping scribes a chaotic time when last year, with the rank of spe- Neely, 28, describes a litany his face. Other soldiers hog- Saudi government shakeup hailed as ‘bold’ soldiers lacked clear rules for cialist, and now works as a law of cruel treatment by his fellow tied him and left him in the sun dealing with detainees, who enforcement officer in the soldiers, including beatings for hours. Only later did Neely were denied many basic com- Houston area. He is president and humiliations he said were learn — from another detainee Riyadh changing a number of top jus- is not just a changing of the are banned from driving in forts. He says the circum- of the local chapter of Iraq intended only to deliver physi- — that the man had jerked AFP-JIJI tice-sector jobs, naming 79 guard,’’ the Saudi Arab News Saudi Arabia. stances changed quickly once Veterans Against the War. cal or psychological pain. away thinking he was about to ------------------------------------------ new members, according to said in its editorial. ‘‘It isa But the symbolism of the monitors from the Interna- An urge to tell his story led Neely’s account sheds new be executed.

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