Israel Reportedly Seeks Exchange With PLO
Israel has been negotiating indirectly with the Palestine Liberation Organization to exchange Palestinian prisoners for the body of an Israeli soldier, an Israeli Arab educator said Sunday.
Ahmed Tibi, who heads the Arab Academic Circle in Arab East Jerusalem, said the United States and other third parties have been involved in the effort.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denied the report, although Israeli newspapers reported that the PLO will return the body of an Israeli Druze soldier, Samir Asad, captured and believed killed in Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
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