Two Palestinian Arabs are under arrest in a Lebanese prison to prevent their participation in a commando raid against Israel, it was reported here today from Beirut.
The arrest of the Arabs was disclosed by a Lebanese Army spokesman who displayed the two prisoners to show that they were in good health after the death of a third prisoner, also arrested to prevent his infiltrating into Israel, gave rise to allegations that the prisoners were tortured.
The Lebanese spokesman said that the third prisoner, Jalal Kaawash, died after jumping from a window of an army headquarters building. On hearing of the man’s death last week, Syrian and Palestinian demonstrators in Damascus hailed Kaawash as a “hero and martyr” and denounced “traitors and treason” in the Arab dispute with Israel.
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