164 Recommendations The recommendations made here are arranged according to chapters and, where applicable, then divided between West Bank and Gaza Strip. Chapter One: The Right to Life and Physical Safety West Bank 1. To abolish the death penalty from the Palestinian legal system, it is essential that: a. The President of the PNA continue to refuse endorsement of death sentences imposed by the Palestinian courts and refer all the cases of civilians sentenced to death by military courts to competent civil courts for review. b. The President of the PNA uses his constitutional powers of amnesty to commute the death penalty to imprisonment in all cases exercised by Palestinian courts. c. Implementation of legal procedures allowing the appeal of death sentences imposed by military courts. 2. The Public Prosecution should investigate murder cases to reveal their perpetrators and bring them to justice, and with particular emphasis on crimes committed under mysterious conditions and honor killing cases. 3. The President of the PNA and the Ministry of the Interior should continue to issue explicit orders to the security agencies not to practice torture or ill‐treatment in the detention centers and prisons. Accordingly, they should hold whoever is involved in torturing any person accountable and ensure psychological and physical rehabilitation and compensation to the victims of torture.