Israel will protest to the International Committee of the Red Cross and will send notes to all governments with which it maintains diplomatic relations against Egypt’s torture of the four prisoners released yesterday in exchange for the 5, 800 Egyptian officers and men Israel is returning to their land.
All four prisoners told of frequent beatings, being kept on a near starvation diet and being subjected to cigarette burns during “interrogation” by Egyptian jailors. Air Force Lt. Jonathon Etkes, whose parents were Americans, was examined by Israeli physicians in the presence of United Nations observers and then transferred to a military hospital His body still showed burn scars.
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