1.   On Thursday morning U.N. officials, whose police monitors have the right to interview prisoners, said they had learned nothing.

2.   Reporters are not allowed to interview prisoners.

3.   The Israeli Justice Ministry spokesman Etty Eshed said that the FBI had been granted permission to interview two Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

4.   The organization insists on the right to interview prisoners without witnesses, to see all prisoners and to visit any prisoner repeatedly.