Human rights groups have called on Hamas to investigate widespread allegations of abduction, torture and killing of Palestinians accused of being collaborators with Israel during the war in Gaza. "There is a state of vigilantism and chaos, lawlessness in the Gaza Strip right now," Randa Siniora of the Independent Commission for Human Rights said Sunday. Separately on Sunday, the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights called for an investigation into the death of Jamil Shakoura, who died in a Gaza hospital after being beaten in the custody of Hamas security forces.
Khalil Abu Shammala, a human rights monitor, told Al Jazeera that dozens of Fatah members were shot and tortured during the war. Naem Atallah told Al Jazeera that he found the body of his son Osama, a Fatah supporter, at Gaza's Shifa hospital after he was taken away from the family home by ten masked men who said they were from internal security. Osama, a teacher and father of five children, had been strangled, suffered blunt force trauma to his head and been shot. (Al-Jazeera-Qatar)
