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VIII. Acknowledgments

This report was researched and written by Fred Abrahams, senior researcher in the emergencies division at Human Rights Watch. Fares Akram, consultant to Human Rights Watch, contributed research from Gaza. Human Rights Watch Klatsky Fellow Sara Mahmoud-Davis conducted research on foreign assistance to security sector reform. The report was edited by Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa division, Iain Levine, program director, Clive Baldwin, senior legal advisor, and Kenneth Roth, executive director. In the Middle East and North Africa division, senior associate Assef Ashraf, associate Brent Giannotta, Arabic web editor and translations coordinator Amr Khairy and interns Peter Bessada, Maysa Hindaileh and Faida Awashreh provided invaluable assistance.

Human Rights Watch thanks all the individuals in Gaza and the West Bank who took the time to provide testimony, information or analysis for this report, especially the victims of abuse. The report would not have been possible without the reporting and assistance of human rights groups in Gaza and the West Bank, in particular the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights (now the Independent Commission for Human Rights), the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, al-Haq and Addammeer.