From: RCIRIT%DENVER@VAXF.Colorado.EDU (REMZI CIRIT)
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Subject: ISRAEL/SOUTH LEBANON:  Over 400 Palestinians
Date: 28 Dec 1992 13:38:03 -0600
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EXTRA 108/92     Deportation/       21 December 1992
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ISRAEL/SOUTH LEBANON:  Over 400 Palestinians

 Amnesty International is seriously concerned at the situation of over
400 Palestinian deportees currently stranded in an area between the
"security zone", controlled by Israel with its allied militia the South
Lebanon Army (SLA), and the rest of Lebanon.  Most of the
deportees are suspected by the Israeli authorities of being members of
the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) which claimed responsibility
for the killing of an Israeli Border Policeman last week.

The deportees are reported to have tried this morning to enter the
"security zone" on their way back to Israel but to have stopped when
the SLA opened fire in their direction.  Amjad Zamel, one of the
deportees, was wounded and is said to have been taken to hospital in
territory under Lebanese army control.  The Israeli authorities have
stated they do not intend to allow them back, although the Israeli
High Court of Justice is currently examining a petition to allow the
deportees back.  The Lebanese authorities have stated they do not
intend to allow the deportees into the territory under their control.

Amnesty International is reiterating its call to the Israeli authorities to
allow the Palestinian deportees to return safely to Israel.  If any are
suspected of committing an offence, they should be charged and given
a prompt and fair trial, or be released.

Amnesty International is also calling on Israel and the SLA to ensure
that the Palestinian deportees are not harmed and are allowed safe
passage through the "security zone" into Israel.  At the same time, the
deportees should be given protection by the Lebanese authorities if
they seek it.   Amnesty International has condemned the killing of
Sergeant-Major Nissim Toledano, the Israeli Border Policeman taken
hostage in Israel and then killed by Hamas.  It had called on Hamas
not to ill-treat him or execute him and to release him as he was held
as a hostage.  It had also called on the Israeli authorities not to
retaliate against the killing of Nissim Toledano by summarily deporting
hundreds of Palestinians.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:  Please send
telegrams/telexes/faxes/express and airmail letters either in English or
in your own language:

- calling on the Israeli authorities to ensure that the Palestinian
deportees are allowed to return safely to Israel;

- calling on the Israeli authorities and the South lebanon Army not to
harm the deportees and to allow them safe passage back to Israel;

- stressing that Amnesty International condemns the killing of the
Israeli Border Policeman but urging the Israeli authorities not to
commit human rights violations in response to such abuses.

APPEALS TO:

Mr Yitzhak Rabin
[Salutation: Dear Prime Minister]
Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan Street
Jerusalem 91919
State of Israel
Telegrams: Prime Minister Rabin, Jerusalem, Israel
Telexes:   25279 mpres il
Faxes:     + 972 2 664 838

Lieutenant-General Ehud Barak
[Salutation: Dear Lieutenant-General Barak]
Chief of Staff
C/o Ministry of Defence
7 "A" Street
Hakirya
TEL AVIV 67659
State of Israel
Telegrams: Chief of Staff Barak, Tel Aviv, Israel
Telexes:   371434 mod il
Faxes:     + 972 3 217915

Major-General Yitzhak Mordechai
[Salutation: Dear Major-General Mordechai]
Military Commander for the Northern Command
c/o Ministry of Defence
7 "A" Street
Hakirya
Tel Aviv 64734
State of Israel
Telegrams: Major-General Mordechai, Ministry of Defence, Tel Aviv,
Israel
Telexes:   371434 mod il
Faxes:     + 972 3 217915

PLEASE SEND COPIES OF YOUR APPEALS TO:

Judge Yosef Harish
Attorney General
PO Box 1087
Jerusalem
State of Israel
Faxes: + 972 2 869473

and to the diplomatic representative in your country - please see the
responses to this topic for details.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY.  Please do not send
appeals after 21 January 1993.