[Reuters] Nidal al-Mughrabi - Palestinian policeman Tareq Asfour, 43, said the two blood-encrusted holes in his legs were made by nails hammered in by Hamas gunmen who tortured him. After handcuffing him and tying him up with wire, "they hit me with the wooden handle of a shovel and they used hammers to hit my joints. They put nails in my legs," he said. Asfour's allegations of mistreatment have been echoed in reports Fatah members have filed with human rights organizations since the fighting.
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