There are five intelligence-gathering services, under a Central Office of Intelligence: (i) Mossad, specialising in external information gathering and in anti-Palestinian terrorist operations; (ii) AMAN, which specialises in military information, under the Armed Forces General Command; (iii) SHEBAK (formerly Shin Bet) which operates inside Israel. The other two are less important.
2.
Five of the prisoners with Abla were Lebanese Communist Party members, one was a fedai from Turkey, one or two others may have been resistance group members. Most had been arrested on allegations from informers.
3.
See Israel in Lebanon: report of the International Commission (London, 1983).
4.
See N. Yuvall-Davis , Israeli Women and Men: divisions behind the unity (London, Change International Reports, nd).
5.
Such fights between Jewish and Arab women prisoners are reported by many siyassiyat ('politicals'), who suspect they are encouraged by the warders.
6.
Shaweesh, someone in charge, a word of Turkish origin. Abla and another prisoner were later elected as representatives in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.
7.
For a forecast of Israel's new strategy, see E. Farjoin, 'Pax Hebraica' Khamsin (no. 10, 1983).
8.
A protest was sent by the Secretary-General of the UN to Israel's Permanent Representative, but 'it would appear that the Government of Israel has taken the position that it may determine unilaterally what constitutes an official or unofficial act of a United Nations official ...' Report of the Commissioner-General of the UNRWA (July/June 1983), p. 32.
