11.   PLO chief Yasser Arafat on Sunday called a national day of fasting in a show of solidarity with Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in an Israeli jail.

12.   A Palestinian detainee lay unconscious in a West Bank hospital Tuesday after being whipped, beaten and poked with burning cigarettes in Palestinian custody.

13.   A disciplinary court acquitted a security agency interrogator of most charges against him in connection with a Palestinian detainee who died after violent shaking during questioning, officials said.

14.   A Palestinian detainee died several years ago after being shaken, and in response, the Supreme Court banned the practice.

15.   A Palestinian detainee was shot to death by guards in a Palestinian jail where he had been held for almost two years without trial, officials said Wednesday.

16.   A secret service interrogator who questioned a Palestinian detainee just before he died will not face criminal charges, the state attorney decided Wednesday.

17.   A Palestinian detainee was shot to death by a guard at a Palestinian jail where he had been held for almost two years without trial, officials said Wednesday.

18.   A special panel of nine judges on Wednesday heard appeals by four Palestinian detainees.

19.   Amnesty International on Tuesday sharply criticized an Israeli bill intended to increase government regulation of Shin Bet, saying it legitimized systematic abuse of Palestinian detainees.

20.   Amnesty and other human rights groups have said Shin Bet interrogators systematically mistreat Palestinian detainees, and that the use of force was not reserved for exceptional cases.