31.   Palestinian human rights activists said Tuesday they were concerned about three recent cases in which Palestinian prisoners were beaten to death by fellow Arab inmates in Israeli prisons.

32.   A California student who joined armed Palestinians in a church siege in Bethlehem has been released from an Israeli prison and deported to New York, his father said.

33.   A Jordanian citizen serving an eight-year sentence in an Israeli prison made a plea to the Israeli High Court concerning visiting rights.

34.   A leaflet from the Muslim militant group Hamas claims Lafi Khalil had informed on Palestinian activists in an Israeli prison.

35.   A Palestinian prisoner was found dead in his cell in an Israeli prison Sunday.

36.   Abbas, who met Israeli Internal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani on Tuesday, said there was agreement to release Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons Friday.

37.   Akawi, interviewed in an Israeli prison, said the arms were ordered and paid for by the Palestinian Authority.

38.   An Israeli judge has proposed that Sheinbein return voluntarily for the trial and then serve his sentence in an Israeli prison, considered safer for the Jewish teen.

39.   An Israeli lawyer together with Palestinian families on Sunday accused Israeli prison officers of beating five jailed Palestinian women, two of them teen-agers.

40.   An activist from the Islamic militant Hamas organization was found dead in an Israeli prison cell Sunday, and police suspect he was beaten to death by cellmates.