20- A nunber of our students are serving prlson sentences of varying durationt thevast majority of our rnale students (75 per cent according to a survey conducted bythe public relaEions office of Ar Najah National university), some of our fenalestudents and a nunber of staff nenbers have been held in Nablu8 nilitaryheadouarters. in one or another prison, and rnost freouentry in A1 Farara detentloncenCre. They are routinely naltreated and either interrogated in a randon,brutalizing manner (as if the authorities were on a "fishlng expedltlon' of a typewhich is forbidden under all codes of civilized lawt and even nore clearlydisplaying the rrill to humiliate and dehurnanize) , or .finally released rlthout i.nterrogation of any sor t. 2I, On 29 January 1985, the assj.stant to the Director of public Relations aC A1 Najah and another deparEmental enployee were thus arrested and detained forA/40 /7 02 English Page 138 two weeks in Al Farara, before being released without the stightest cbarge being brought aga inst them. 22. fn February 1985, the elected Student Council Chairman was placed under a fenelrable six=monEtlrs to$rn arrest order. 23. A Lecturer in the Physlcs Department' Mr, Saml Kllani, is in his third consecutive year of town arrest. Thls latter practice is particularly coatly to the teacher, the students and the University. Several other students are al.so under town arrest. One, who wag released Iate last year after tno yeara town arresE' suffered crippling injuries fron fsraeli army gunfire last Novenber (on the aane occasion a Bir Zeit University student, !,ir. sharaf Tibir was shot to death by sold iers ) . 24. There is a ner., praceice currently being carried out, which aPpears to reflect tbe present Israeli covernmentrs drive to appear nore hunane while behavlng as before. This practice consists in orderlng certaln scudencs (Al NaJah currently has chree such cases and we anticipate nore in the future) to refraln fron entering the Unlversity. They are not under toen arres!, but their education' tbat is to Eay their future, is none tbe less arrested. 25. shootings occur during peaceful assemblies by Palestinians of aIl ages and 6exes. Numbers of killings by the arny and by fsraeli settlers are carried out yearly. farael argues that its humanitarlan praccicea are proven by the fact that it does not have (or at least does not carry out) the death senEence, but unarned adultE and cbildren are killed by the authorities in nunbers which probably surpaas
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a report or statement about the treatment of students and staff members of Al Najah National University by the Israeli authorities. The text describes the detention, interrogation, and arrest of students and staff, as well as the violent treatment of some of them. The text also mentions the killing of Palestinians by the army and settlers, and the restrictions placed on students' education. The focus of the text is on the human rights violations and the impact on the university community, rather than on any specific economic or environmental issue.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Education