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- From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: ISRAEL/OT: Hostage & Palestinians
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.072906.26437@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /* Written 11:29 pm Dec 19, 1992 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
- /* ---------- "ISRAEL/OT: Hostage & Palestinians" ---------- */
- Amnesty International
- International Secretariat
- 1 Easton Street
- London WC1X 8DJ
- United Kingdom
-
- DATE: 17 DECEMBER 1992
-
- ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS
- KILLING OF ISRAELI HOSTAGE, CALLS ON ISRAEL TO STOP DEPORTATION OF PALESTINIAN
- DETAINEES
-
- Amnesty International has strongly condemned the killing of Sergeant Nissim
- Toledano, a member of the Israeli Border Police who was taken hostage on 13
- December 1992 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and whose body was
- found two days later. The organization had called on Hamas not to ill- treat
- or execute him and to release him as he was held as a hostage. It regrets
- that its appeal has failed. Amnesty International is appealing to the Israeli
- authorities not to retaliate to the killing of Sergeant Toledano by deporting
- hundreds of Palestinians. Over 400 Palestinians, said by the government to be
- supporters of Hamas and other Palestinian groups, were moved during the night
- of 16 December to near the border with Lebanon and are now reported to be held
- blindfold in buses awaiting deportation. The Israeli High Court of Justice
- has ordered the government not to carry out the deportations until it reviews
- the decision. It is currently meeting to do so. Amnesty International opposes
- the detention and forcible exile of individuals when such measures are imposed
- solely on account of their political or other beliefs, expressed without using
- of advocating violence.
-