21.   Hezbollah has offered to trade the men for Lebanese and Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

22.   Hezbollah said then that its goal was to exchange the soldiers from some of its people held in Israeli jails, a swap that has not occurred.

23.   Hezbollah said Saturday that it would seek to trade its three new captives for about a dozen Lebanese held in Israeli jails, including two guerrilla leaders.

24.   His successor, Mohammed Dief, was arrested in Gaza in May this year, and is being held in an Israeli jail.

25.   Hundreds spent time in Israeli jails.

26.   In one case, however, the Palestinians wanted one of their characters to say that he learned Hebrew while in an Israeli jail.

27.   In another gesture, eight women in prison whose release had been demanded by the PLO were freed Wednesday from Israeli jails.

28.   In Palestinian communities, almost every family has a relative who is or was in Israeli jails.

29.   Meanwhile, in Damascus, Syrians staged a sit-in denouncing the Jewish state and demanding the immediate release of Syrian prisoners in Israeli jails, the Associated Press reported.

30.   Most Palestinian families have relatives who are, or were, in Israeli jails and they consider them prisoners of war.