51.   The Supreme Court on Sunday ordered Israeli authorities to justify a decision to not prosecute two interrogators who shook a Palestinian detainee to death, Israel Radio said.

52.   Two Palestinians deported by Israel in April began fasting Monday in solidarity with Palestinian detainees on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail.

53.   Five or six other Palestinian detainees were also to be released Tuesday from other prisons around the country, officials said.

54.   Israeli authorities barred a member of the Palestinian negotiating team on prisoners from visiting Palestinian detainees in an Israeli prison on Thursday.

55.   A Palestinian detainee died on Saturday in the autonomous West Bank town of Nablus after being tortured by Palestinian police, a human rights group said.

56.   The remaining stumbling blocks include Palestinian control over crossing points and the release of Palestinian detainees.

57.   Two former prisoners of Israel who were deported to south Lebanon in April began a hunger strike here on Monday in support of Palestinian detainees, UN sources said.

58.   Under Israeli control, the compound was also used as a military prison, housing Palestinian detainees.