A high Israeli source said yesterday that Israel would allow the slain Palestine Liberation Organization official Naim Khader to be buried on the West Bank if the PLO agreed to return the bodies of four Israeli soldiers killed in south Lebanon. Khader, who headed the PLO office in Brussels, was shot to death in the Belgian capital June I by an unknown gunman.
The Israeli source disclosed that an unnamed third party is conducting negotiations with the PLO on behalf of the families of the soldiers. The source said Israel was approached by certain international figures with a request that Khader’s body be interred at his birthplace near Jenin and presented its conditions to those figures.
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