The World - News from Nov. 18, 1985
A Shia Muslim group said it was holding four Jews kidnaped in Lebanon and demanded the release of prisoners held by Israel and its militia allies in southern Lebanon as the price of their freedom. The claim from the “Organization of the Oppressed in the World” came in a typewritten Arabic statement delivered to a news agency in Beirut. The group accused Israel of holding more than 300 “strugglers” at Khiam in southern Lebanon. The four kidnaped men were identified in the statement as members of the committee in Lebanon for the support of Israel’s Establishment.
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