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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