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Israel Supreme Court: PA Must Pay $3.8 Million for False Imprisonment of 51 Palestinians
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday endorsed two judgments by lower courts totaling $3.8 million against the Palestinian Authority for falsely jailing 51 Palestinians. The case involved Palestinian citizens coming before Israeli courts to get justice for their mistreatment by their own PA law enforcement. In the July 2017 decision that was upheld, the Jerusalem District Court found that PA authorities tortured various plaintiffs 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 of the plaintiffs "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.