'"I have never seen such brutality in my life, except from the Israeli forces," says Aliya,* still shocked a day after her protest march through the West Bank town of Ramallah was violently attacked by Palestinian security officers. "They just kept on beating us."

Aliya was one of a few hundred young people who had marched on Sunday 1 July to protest against police brutality which had broken up an earlier demonstration.

As the protesters started to call for the resignation of Abdul Latif al-Qadumi, the head of the Ramallah police force, the reaction of the police grew more violent. "No to Dayton’s police! Stop the coordination!" was one of the protesters’ cries.'

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