But it was not clear then to which organization the guerrillas belonged.

The guerrillas belong to the Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party.

The army said the guerrillas, caught by the army by a hole they had cut in the fence near Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel, belonged to the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine.

Initially, the guerrillas in the area belonged to the revived Armed Islamic Movement (MIA) and various independent groups; after 1994, these were integrated into the larger Armed Islamic Group (GIA).

Also, guerrillas belonged to ethnic tribes that lived on both sides of the border, which made the question of aggression ambiguous.

The guerrilla who had died in police custody belonged to Abu Musa's Palestine National Liberation Movement - Fatah.

He said the slain guerrillas belonged to a band of 130 members of the Moro National Liberation Front who were purportedly surrendering to the Government Wednesday but ambushed the trucks in the nearby village of Buldon.

A Democratic Front spokesman in Lebanon affirmed that the guerrillas belonged to the group.

The separatist guerrillas belong to the 12 percent of the population known as Jaffna or Sri Lankan Tamils, a highly educated, urbanized group settled for many centuries in the north and in Colombo.

The Israeli authorities did not say to what group the guerrillas might have belonged.