U.S., Zionist Regime Main Producers of Torture Devices
The agency, citing human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), said that more than 150 firms are producing devices for torture, adding that more than 80 percent of them are American.
The AI report demanded a worldwide ban on the production of such devices. The most common devices are chemical and electric shocks devices. Only the Zionist regime has officially approved the use of torture.
In the meantime, wire copies said five Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank Tuesday as Palestinians buried another victim of the five months of fighting.
Medical officials said five Palestinians stone-throwers were shot by Israeli soldiers with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes which followed a gunfight that raged between armed Palestinians and Israeli troops near the village of Beit Rima before dawn in the West Bank, northwest of Ramallah.
Medical officials said the five people were taken to hospital, but did not sustain serious injuries.
In Ramallah, about 1,000 people attended a funeral for Hussam Imad al-Disi, 17, shot dead by Israeli soldiers during clashes outside the nearby Qalandia Palestinian refugee camp.
"Revenge, Revenge!" the mourners shouted. "The Doors of the Aqsa Are Made of Steel, They Only Open for the Martyr," cheered others, many carrying Palestinian flags.
Occupied Al-Qods' Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, built atop the most sacred site for Jews, is the third holiest shrine in Islam.
"Bait-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem) cannot be returned without blood," shouted the mourners.
Al-Disi was the 420th person to be killed in fighting between Israelis and Palestinians, which broke out after Israeli right-wing Prime Minister-Elect Ariel Sharon paid a controversial visit to the Al-Aqsa compound under heavy police escort on September 28.
Meanwhile another reports said Israeli police arrested the brother of the West Bank leader of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement overnight, Zionist military sources said Tuesday.
Hisham Barghouti, who has Saudi nationality, was arrested as he was trying to cross Allenby Bridge, the link between Jordan and the West Bank, carrying material that authorities said could be used for weapons.
He told police he was carrying the material for use in a camera for his son, studying in Ramallah in the West Bank, and did not know it could have a military use.
His brother, Marwan, is the West Bank leader of Fatah. Israeli authorities have publicly accused Marwan Barghouti of being behind the nearly five months of deadly clashes there between Israelis and Palestinians.