At approximately 9:00 on Monday 29th April 2013, the Internal Security Apparatus, ISA, sent 2 written notifications, in which the ISA ordered two of Fatah members Samy Abo Lashen, 40, and Nidal Khadra , 34, to present themselves immediately at the ISA HQ in the Gaza city.
At approximately 11:30 on the same day, a third Fatah member Hazem Salama, 39, was summoned by the ISA.
According to the affidavits given by the summoned members to Al Mezan, the Fatah members were questioned on their political activities as Fatah members.
In addition, they were physically tortured by hanging them by the limbs (tying their hands up at the ceiling of a prison cell while their legs are barely rest on a small chair for two hours long).
The ISA threatened them that they would punish them even more severely if the members carry on with their activities.
Before the summoned members were released at 05:00 pm on the same day, the ISA handed them a new written notification to present themselves on 30th April at the ISA North Gaza office.
When the 3 Fatah members presented themselves at the office at 9:00 am, they were detained in small prison cells till 11:00 am.
However, they were soon released in fear of a potential Israeli escalation.
Before the members left the apparatus, the ISA handed them another written summoning notification to present themselves on Thursday 2nd May at the Apparatus in the North Gaza district.
The Fatah members went again on Thursday to the Apparatus, when this time the ISA officers kept them waiting seated on small chairs till 05:00 pm on the same day.
They were asked yet again to present themselves on 5th May.