“None of our members made such a request to the Israeli occupation forces because it contradicts our national values and principles,” the Fatah statement said. “All of our positions are made public, and we have no secrets. These are fabrications and lies that are part of a Shin Bet conspiracy.” Fatah also appealed to Arab journalists and media organizations to avoid publishing such allegations in the future.Hamas, which had in the past made similar charges against Fatah, said that the WikiLeaks cable was a “dangerous development that exposed the magnitude of security cooperation between Fatah and Israel in the West Bank.”Hamas officials also accused Fatah-dominated security forces in the West Bank of arresting and torturing many supporters of the Islamist movement in the West Bank. “Brutal torture in Fatah prisons in the West Bank has reached the degree of death,” said Hamas legislator and spokesman Mushir al-Masri. “What is happening in the Fatah prisons is similar to what has been happening in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.”Another Hamas official claimed that 26 Hamas detainees held in PA prisons were currently on hunger strike. He said that the PA security forces had recently stepped up their crackdown on Hamas supporters in the West Bank and that some women had also been taken into custody.Saleh Arouri, a Damascus-based Hamas official, said that most of these detainees, who were being held without trial, preferred death over continued incarceration.