Report: PA security killed six Palestinians, abducted hundreds last month

A report on the PA-Israeli violations issued by Hamas Movement’s information office on Wednesday stated that the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank killed six Palestinian citizens and kidnapped 504 others in June.

The report noted that one of the citizens killed by the PA security apparatuses was tortured to death and the other five, Palestinian fighters affiliated with Hamas, were assassinated.

The report underlined that these crimes and political arrests, which were carried out by the security apparatuses under the command of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and US officer Keith Dayton, came in the context of PA security agreements with the Israeli occupation authority.

It added that the PA violations did not stop at this point, where 11 Palestinian women were kidnapped and dozens of mosques were raided and ransacked by these security apparatuses during the same month.

The report pointed out that the PA security apparatuses, as part of their security coordination with Israel, handed over to Israeli occupation forces (IOF) 10 Israeli settlers and soldiers who claimed to have entered the Palestinian territory by mistake.

As for the Israeli violations and crimes during this month, the report said that the IOF troops killed nine Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank and kidnapped 386 others.

In a new development, the PA security apparatuses continued its political arrest campaigns and kidnapped Tuesday 10 Palestinian citizens in different West Bank areas including two ex-detainees and two university students.

It was also reported that another citizen called Mohamed Al-Sharof was kidnapped by IOF troops in Al-Khalil city just one week after his release from PA jails.