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Israel Criticized for I.D. Numbers
Tue Mar 12, 2:05 PM ET
By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli lawmaker who survived the Nazi Holocaust expressed
outrage Tuesday over Israeli troops writing identification numbers on the
foreheads and forearms of Palestinian detainees awaiting interrogation during an
army sweep of a West Bank refugee camp.

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Yugoslav-born Tommy Lapid said he told army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz
and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer that the practice (news - Y! TV) must
cease immediately.

"As a refugee from the Holocaust I find such an act insufferable," Lapid said,
adding that Mofaz and Ben-Eliezer also were displeased with the practice and that
both had pledged action.

During World War II, concentration camp inmates, most of them Jews, had numbers
tattooed on their forearms.

Mofaz later said in a radio interview that he had ordered an immediate halt to
the numbering, which the army said was done to identify and keep track of
prisoners last week in the Tulkarem refugee camp.

One photograph showed a detainee who had just been released with a large number
written across his forearm. Other detainees said they had three-digit numbers
written across their foreheads.

The army has said the marking, in ink that could be washed off, was a one-time
occurrence and not military policy. Television footage of detainees in another
West Bank camp on Monday showed no such markings.

Still, Col. Gal Hirsh, a regional commander in the West Bank, conceded the
numbering of prisoners at Tulkarem was a mistake.

"I don't think that putting numbers on the (arms) of Palestinians that were
arrested is a good idea," Hirsh said.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) on Monday equated the action
with the treatment of Jews in Nazi concentration camps.

"Did you see them put (numbers) on people they've arrested in the Tulkarem
refugee camp?" Arafat said on Abu Dhabi Television. "Isn't this the sort of thing
they used to say the Nazis did against the Jews? So what do they say about these
things? Isn't this a new Nazi racism?"

Hirsh said the incident had been blown out of proportion and he condemned the
comparison between Jewish soldiers and Nazis. "This makes me sick," he said.

Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web
sites) acknowledged that numbering prisoners in such a way did not create an
attractive media image.

"If the idea was to convey a message of deterrence, clearly it conflicts with the
desire to convey a public relations message," he told Israel Army Radio.

Israeli military commentator Ron Ben-Ishai said commanders in the field often
scribbled on their own arms, to note down such things as radio frequencies and
call-signs, but acknowledged that to do so with Palestinian prisoners was
insensitive.