Four Israeli Arabs who went to Lebanon separately to visit relatives in the past three weeks have disappeared and there is no word of their whereabouts, according to unofficial reports reaching here yesterday. One of them is believed to be held by the Lebanese army in Beirut.
The visits were permitted for humanitarian reasons. But the four apparently exceeded the limits of their permits and may have entered areas closed to Israeli personnel.
An Israeli Arab woman who went to visit her sister in the Sabra refugee camp in west Beirut may have been detained by the Lebanese army along with four residents of the camp, it was learned here. There is no information about the three others. The Israeli army recently stepped up its searches in west Beirut for people living in Lebanon without legal permits.
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