One of the recent arrestees in the "expanded Bat Ayin" group, Tzuriel Amior of Adei Ad in the Shilo bloc, has been released from the GSS (Shabak) interrogation installation. The GSS is apparently having difficulty proving its suspicions against him, and transferred him to a regular civilian prison. Approximately a dozen other suspects in various unsolved attacks against Arabs over the past two years are still in custody - and the request of several of them to meet with their lawyer was rejected today by the Supreme Court. The ban will remain in force at least until the end of the week.



Meir Peretz, father of one of the detainees, says that the Shabak is severely mistreating his son. He said that the Shabak is not allowing a doctor to examine his son, despite a court order, and that his son is in a grave emotional state.



In addition to the Shabak's Jewish Section, other GSS departments are also hard at work. Working together with the Southern Region of Israel Police, the Shabak has uncovered a ring of Israeli-Arabs who enlisted with Hamas. They were planning not only to collect information on IDF activity and pass it on to Hamas, but also to carry out murderous attacks themselves. Five suspects, including four Bedouin, one who served as a Civil Guard volunteer and another who was in the IDF, were arrested two weeks ago. They admitted to having been trained by Hamas in shooting, preparing pipe bombs, kidnapping a former senior army officer, kidnapping soldiers, murdering soldiers in order to steal their weapons, and attacking a bus full of soldiers.