HOLY LAND: JERICHO JAIL; A WITNESS TO SIR: "YOU CAN STILL HEAR FIRING"

” “"The jail is surrounded by Israeli soldiers. Firing has been heard since the morning. They also fired from the tanks. Now you can see a pillar of smoke rising. Many people stay away but keep watching what’s going on". This is the evidence taken by SIR from Jericho, where the Israeli army is raiding the local jail to capture Ahmed Saadat, head of the Peoples Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was imprisoned after he had claimed responsibility for the murder of Israeli Minister Rehavam Zeevi. The source, that wants to remain anonymous for security reasons, revealed that "even yesterday, some US and British observers in charge of watching over the convicts’ conditions had left the jail (for security reasons, according to US and British sources, editor’s note). Today at dawn, the Israelis arrived with armoured vehicles and caterpillars". As to the abduction of some Western people at Gaza and in other cities of Cis-Jordan, the source said he "knows that, according to unconfirmed rumours, some Western hostages seem to have been killed".” “