Yasser Arafat claimed that Israel tattooed numbers on the arms of Palestinians the army rounded up in refugee camps. An Israeli military source said Palestinians detained in Tulkarm had been given numbers to facilitate the questioning process, but that these were written on their arms in ink that would wash off.
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