Defense Minister Moshe Arens confirmed today that Israeli security authorities have re-arrested 16 former detainees of the Ansar camp in south Lebanon who had been re-leased in the prisoner exchange with the Palestine Liberation Organization last month. He said all were suspected of terrorist acts against Israeli forces in Lebanon since they were freed.
Twelve of the prisoners were released after interrogation. Three are still being questioned and one confessed to wounding an Israeli soldier in an attack in south Lebanon recently Arens spoke in the Knesset in reply to a question by Communist MK Toufik Toubi who said he had been informed that 160 former Ansar detainees have been re-arrested.
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