TEHRANThe Geneva based Human Rights Watch has called upon the United Nations to ask Israel to abide by the Convention against Torture and submit a record on all inhuman treatments meted out in that country. The call was made on Friday and a copy of it was faxed to the TEHRAN TIMES yesterday which said Israel has consistently disregarded the Committee Against Torture's recommendations and continued to use torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment during interrogations of Palestinian detainees. The Committee Against Torture met yesterday in Geneva and discussed Israel's second periodic report to the treaty-monitoring body. In its submission to the UN Committee, the Human Rights Watch noted that Israel's report failed to satisfactorily address serious concerns the Committee raised in its previous sessions. Human Rights Watch said that pending Israeli legislation and Court rulings could greatly expand Israel's use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The draft 'General Security Services (GSS) Law' allows secret guidelines for interrogation, grants GSS employees immunity from criminal liability, and makes it a criminal offense for any member of the GSS or its Knesset oversight committee to disclose any information without authorization. The draft Law Concerning Handling of Suits Arising From Security Force Activities severely limits the right of Palestinians to seek compensation for wrongful injury or death caused by Israeli soldiers by blocking them from bringing civil suits in Israeli courts. Human Rights Watch also expresed concern that an upcoming ruling by the Israeli High Court of Justice could legalize the use of many interrogation practices which constitute torture. At least one of these practices, violent shaking is known to have resulted in death, it concluded.