This statement summarizes AI’s concerns about human rights violations in the Israeli-occupied Territories during 1992. AI was concerned in particular about the increase in the numbers of Palestinians killed and the continuing use of torture by the Israeli security forces. Other concerns were the arbitrary detention and torture of detainees in the Khiam prison in South Lebanon and the deportation of over 400 Palestinians to South Lebanon in December 1992, in response to the abduction and killing of Border Policeman Nissim Toledano by Hamas. AI condemns this killing and those of other Israeli citizens by members of armed Palestinian groups; it also condemns the killings of over 200 Palestinians, many of them suspected of collaboration with the authorities.
