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Ron Arad Is Alive
Says PLO Official
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Longtime
missing Israeli air force
navigator Ron Arad is alive
and being held in Syria, a
senior intelligence official of
the Palestine Liberation
Organization contends.
The official also says that
the bodies of three Israel
Defense Force soldiers miss-
ing since the 1982 Sultan
Yacub battle of the Lebanon
War are buried in a
Damascus cemetery.
Sheffi Gabai, Arab affairs
reporter for Ma'ariv, wrote
in the Israeli daily that he
was given the information
by Col. Nezair Amar, head of
military intelligence for the
mainstream Fatah wing of
the PLO.
Col. Amar, who is a mem-
ber of the PLO delegation to
the autonomy implementa-
tion talks at Taba, gave the
information during an
interview at the Sinai
meeting place this week.
According to Mr. Gabai,
Col. Amar said he had in-
vestigated the reports about
Mr. Arad's fate and "can say
with complete certainty that
the Israeli air force
navigator is alive and held
in Syria."
He confirmed the informa-
tion that Mr. Arad had been
captured by forces of the
Lebanese Shi'ite Amal
militia during the Lebanon
War and handed over to the
pro-Iranian Hezbollah
group.
He said that Hezbollah
then handed Mr. Arad over-
to the Syrians.
Mr. Arad is the only one of
seven Israel Defense Force
personnel captured in Leb-
anon who is presumed to be
alive. He was shot down
near Saida, Lebanon, in Oc-
tober 1986.
Over the years it has been
reported that Mr. Arad was
being held in Lebanon and
Iran.
Mr. Gabai quoted Col.
Amar as saying, "The
Syrians tell journalists to-
day that (Arad) is in the
hands of the Iranians. But I
don't think that is possible
without their agreement."
He quoted Col. Amar as
saying that the three Israeli
soldiers who were wounded
and captured during the
Sultan Yacub battle "were
collected by members of the
A-Saiqa Palestinian unit of
, the Syrian army, bundled
into vehicles and taken off to
Damascus, apparently to
hold them for some future
bargaining process with
Israel.
"But I later found that
they had died of their
wounds," the PLO official
told Mr. Gabai.
Mr. Gabai said Col. Amar
was the chief assistant to the
late Salah Khalaf, the PLO
official who was
assassinated by his own
bodyguard.
Col. Amar told the Israeli
journalist that he started his
investigations after a visit to
Tunis by Yona Baumel,
father of Zachariya Baumel,
one of the three missing IDF
soldiers, who had come to
seek news of his son.
But Yona Baumel claims
that information he has ob-
tained in years of investiga-
tions is at variance with the
Col. Amar report.
Three bodies, reportedly
those of the missing soldiers,
were exhumed from the
Damascus Jewish cemetery
and examined. One was
found to be the remains of
another Israeli soldier, and
Three bodies were
exhumed from the
Damascus
cemetery.
the two others were iden-
tified as Arab bodies.
In 1991, Israeli received
information indirectly from
Hezbollah that two IDF
soldiers missing in action,
Yossi Fink and Rachamim
Al-Sheikh, were dead.
The information said they
had been captured by Hez-
bollah gunmen after the
convoy the two were guar-
ding in the southern Leb-
anon security zone was am-
bushed in February 1986.
Other information
implicated the Syrians in
the Israelis' capture and said
they had turned them over
to a terrorist organization.
The body of a Druze Israeli
soldier, Sgt. Samir Assad,
was returned to Israel in
1991 from Lebanon in a
prisoner exchange.
Three other Israeli soldiers
shot down in Lebanon and
presumed dead are Baumel,
Yehuda Katz and Zvi
Feldman.
Ron Arad's wife, Tami,
reacted to the Ma'arly report
by saying this latest infor-
mation appears to cor-
roborate that Damascus is
the address for obtaining in-
formation to gain the release
of her missing husband. 0