Bodies ‘not blown up’
NZPA • ' Tel Aviv Distressed at what it considers an unfounded charge of mutilating Palestinian bodies, the Israeli Army has brought forward the commander whose unit killed five guerrillas in Lebanon on Christmas Day and later brought the bodies to Israel. The five bodies were intact when the Israeli detachment re-entered southern on December 29 and urought them to Israel for burial, the officer, a lieutenant-colonel, aged 29, whose identity was kept secret, told reporters. The Army command said the corpses had been turned over to the police and buried in northern Israel. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has claimed a Dutch unit saw the Israelis pile the bodies and blow them up shortly after a clash near Majdal Zum, a Lebanese village skm north of the. IsraelLebanon border. “If the mutilation really had occurred,” he said, “why, in. three days, didn’t the United Nations force take the bodies and show them to the world?”
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Press, 10 January 1981, Page 8
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