69 were complaints regarding the Palestinian Security Services in the West Bank, and (220) similar complaints in the Gaza Strip.70 These complaints were categorized in terms of the party against which the complaint was lodged: (71) complaints against the police; (30) against the General Intelligence Service; (54) against the Preventive Security Service; (1) against the National Security Service; (1) against the Joint Force; (6) against the Intelligence Service; and (220) against the Internal Security Service and Police in the Gaza Strip. As for the responses to ICHR’s complaints, there were no responses to the complaints filed to the Internal Security Service, affiliated with the Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2010. There are some responses to the complaints submitted to the police apparatus in the Gaza Government. Also, ICHR received a number of responses to the complaints received in the West Bank against the police and the various Security Services. But the responses of the General Intelligence Service and the Preventive Security Service only manage to repeat the same phrases, such as “detainee/detainees receive the best treatment.” Another common response would be that the mentioned people “were arrested with backgrounds of breaching security and public order, and were not arrested for political background as they claim.” And the “mentioned” were never subjected to any kind of torture or ill‐treatment, whether verbal or physical, and the respondents were “…always keen to apply the law, strengthen the state of institutions and maintain the dignity and security of Palestinian citizens”. They did not recognize the occurrence of any abuse against anyone who filed the mentioned complaints.71 However, ICHR received a number of responses to the complaints submitted to the police apparatus in the West Bank. Although the police did not recognize the occurrence of violations against physical safety of citizens in the largest number of complaints, it admitted violations against physical integrity in some of the complaints. Some measures were taken against violators. For example, the police in the West Bank took the necessary legal measures against one of its officers, who struck a citizen on his face and took him to the police room in Beit Jala Hospital.72 The police took a number of disciplinary measures against a 70 The numbers above are based on the numbers mentioned in ICHR’s reports on human rights violations in Palestine from January to December 2010. 71 See response received by ICHR from the Security Services in 2010. 72 Police letter addressed to ICHR on 23/05/2010.