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"The Palestinian Authority’s days are numbered."
This assertion has been oft repeated recently, especially after the
torture to death on June 24 of a popular Palestinian activist, Nizar
Banat, 42, at the hands of PA security goons in Hebron (Al-Khalil).
The killing – or "assassination" as some Palestinian rights
groups describe it – of Banat, however, is commonplace. Torture in PA prisons
is the modus operandi, through which Palestinian interrogators exact "confessions."
Palestinian political prisoners in PA custody are usually divided into two main
groups: activists who are suspected by Israel of being involved in anti-Israeli
occupation activities and others who have been detained for voicing criticism