213 Recommendations Chapter One: Patterns of Human Rights Violations based on Complaints Received by ICHR 1. The institutions of the PNA should take the complaints monitored by ICHR seriously, and respond to its letters without delay. This recommendation has been made continuously over the last three years (2008, 2009 and 2010). 2. The Government should carry out the decisions and rulings of the Palestinian courts without delay in compliance with the Palestinian Basic Law. This recommendation has been forwarded over the past three years (2008, 2009 and 2010) with particular emphasis in 2010, due to the increasing number of courts’ decisions demanding release of detainees brought before the military judiciary. 3. The Palestinian security agencies should abide by the directives issued by the Palestinian President regarding not bringing civilians before the military judiciary. Prosecution of civilians before military courts increased noticeably in 2010. 4. The PNA should ensure fair guarantees and commitments to appropriate legal procedures, exemplified by not bringing civilians before military courts and holding detainees in the legal detention centers in accordance with the law. This recommendation has been forwarded over the last three years (2008, 2009 and 2010). 5. The PNA should issue express directives for its security agencies to immediately halt all patterns of torture and ill‐treatment, and bring those who violate these directives to justice for punishment. This recommendation has been desperately been forwarded over the last three years (2008, 2009 and 2010). 6. The PNA should refrain from subjecting public office to political consideration, and abide by the provisions of the Palestinian law, especially civil service law. The intensity of this issue declined during