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Jerusalem — One day, in August 2008, Abdel Karim Shreir disappeared.

For weeks, his mother says, his family didn’t know where he was. He then appeared in Palestinian police custody and was put on trial for collaborating with Israel.

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The man had clearly been tortured.

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“His legs and face were bruised, his hands and arms had rope marks, and his chest had burn marks,” his mother Safia Shreir told The Media Line. “He was in very bad shape.” Mr. Shreir was sentenced to death, allegedly based on a confession he made while being tortured.

Ms. Shreir says he was executed by firing squad in 2011. Hamas buried him before she could see the body and she still has no death certificate.

The woman says when she complained to Hamas authorities, she, too, was beaten. She still has trouble using her right hand.

She insists her son confessed only because he was being tortured. He was not a collaborator with Israel and would have confessed to anything to get the torture to end. “He was killed because he was a member of Fatah,” she said, referring to the rival Palestinian group that controls the West Bank. “I want justice for my son.”