1.
GV RED CROSS CAR OVER BRIDGE
0.06

2.
CU RED CROSS FLAG ON BRIDGE
0.10

3.
SV ISRAELI AMBULANCE ARRIVES
0.15

4.
CU PAN OFFICIALS
0.21

5.
SCU RED CROSS OFFICIALS TALK TO ARMY OFFICER
0.26

6.
SV AMBULANCE DOORS OPEN
0.30

7.
CU OFFICIALS
0.34

8.
SV INJURED MEN OUT OF AMBULANCE (4 SHOTS)
0.51

9.
SV TWO MEN ON CRUTCHES
0.58

10.
SCU (ARABIC SOF) REPORTERS TALK TO THE THREE INJURED MEN
1.23


QUESTION: "HOW WAS IT IN GENERAL?



COMMANDO: IT WAS NORMAL. WE WERE TREATED LIKE THE OTHER PRISONERS AND NOT LIKE PATIENTS.



QUESTION: WHAT IS YOUR WISH, NOW THAT YOU ARE BACK HOME?



COMMANDO: I WANT TO OFFER ALL I CAN TO MY COUNTRY TO FIGHT FOR THE LIBERATION OF MY HOME.



SECOND COMMANDO: ALL THE PEOPLE SHOULD FULFIL THEIR DUTIES TO LIBERATE THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY."




Initials AH/VS/MR/SGM



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Background: THREE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED ARAB COMMANDOS, WHO HAD BEEN HELD IN ISRAEL SINCE LAST OCTOBER, WERE ON MONDAY (MARCH 2) HANDED OVER TO JORDANIAN AUTHORITIES UNDER INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS SUPERVISION.

THE COMMANDOS, WHO HAD LIMBS AMPUTATED AFTER BEING WOUNDED BY A LAND-WINE, WERE TRANSFERRED FROM AN ISRAELI TO A JORDANIAN AMBULANCE IN THE MIDDLE OF KING HUSSEIN BRIDGE -- THE BORDER BRIDGE SPANNING THE RIVER JORDAN.

THREE CAPTURED JORDANIAN FISHERMEN WERE RELEASED BY THE ISRAELIS AT THE SAME TIME. ON THEIR RETURN, THE COMMANDOS TOLD NEWSMEN THAT THEY HAD BEEN INJURED BY THE MINE WHILE MOVING UP TO ATTACK AN ISRAELI POSITION IN THE JORDAN VALLEY. THE BLAST HAD KILLED A FOURTH COMMANDO. ALL WERE MEMBERS OF THE PALESTINE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND SAID THEY WANTED TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL.

AFTER 12 HOURS IN THE MINEFIELD, THEY HAD BEEN CAPTURED AND TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO AN ISRAELI MILITARY HOSPITAL. THEY WERE LATER TRANSFERRED TO A HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM FOR LIMB AMPUTATIONS -- AMPUTATIONS WHICH, THEY CLAIMED, MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IF THEY HAD BEEN TREATED IN JORDAN. THEY WERE ALSO ASKED ABOUT THEIR SUBSEQUENT SPELL IN AN ISRAELI MILITARY PRISON: