Official Calls for Guidelines on Violence
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From the Washington Post
JERUSALEM — Israeli Atty. Gen. Yosef Harish, responding to widespread allegations of beatings of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories, has urged Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin to issue strict written guidelines prohibiting soldiers from using physical force except when dispersing rioters or making arrests.
In a letter released Monday, Harish told Rabin he had received so many “complaints of cruel treatment” that he doubted Rabin’s claim that such acts were “irregular deeds.”
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