Freed Palestinians Tell of Roundup in Grim Detail

RUMMANEH, West Bank, April 9 — The Palestinian men in the photographs are stripped to their underpants, some draped in Israeli Army blankets. Underneath their pictures, their names are handwritten in Hebrew, followed by their identification card numbers.

The men, from the Jenin refugee camp, had been rounded up for interrogation, and were released near this village early Monday. The photos were taken when they were questioned and later given to them as makeshift identification cards, replacing those lost during their arrest.

To the men who carried the pictures here today, the photos were a stinging indignity.

About 400 men from the camp in Jenin have arrived in this neighboring village since early Monday, after they were released from an Israeli base nearby. Some came in their underwear after being held bound and blindfolded that way for more than 24 hours, they said, and they described harrowing days under Israeli attack and then their arrest.

Separated from their families and unsure of their fate, the men have been housed, clothed and fed by people here, with the help of contributions from a neighboring Israeli Arab village, Salem. A tractor-drawn wagon loaded with pita bread, sugar, oil and rice arrived from Salem this afternoon, along with clothing, blankets, even beds.