The Free People of Galilee (Galilee Liberators) terror cell is a group of Israeli Arabs that carried out the murder of an Israeli soldier in July 2003, and have also been linked to the bizarre disappearance of an Israeli-American woman shortly after the soldier's murder.  <P><br /><br />In July 2003, Israeli soldier Oleg Shaichat was kidnapped and murdered in northern Israel.  A few days after Shaichat's murder, an Israeli-American woman named Dana Bennet disappeared in Tiberias, a city not far from where Shaichat was killed.  No group claimed responsibility for her disappearance, and authorities had no leads as to her whereabouts.  <P><br />  <br />A few months later, three Israeli Arabs were arrested for the murder of Shaichat.  Their names were Tarek Nujeirat, Yusuf Sabih and Sharif Eid.   After Nujeirat confessed to the crime, all three were indicted.  In April 2004, as the three suspects were set to be put on trial, Israeli policemen arrested several men for a shooting attack on an Israeli Border Patrol vehicle.  The gun the men had used in the shooting had belonged to Shaichat.  After interrogating the shooting suspects, the Israeli police realized that the men were members of a terror cell known as the "Galilee Liberators."  The other members of the cell were soon arrested; these men confessed to the murder of Shaichat, and revealed further planned terrorist incidents.  Despite Nujeirat's confession, the three original suspects were proved to be innocent and unaffiliated with the Galilee Liberators.  Nujeirat, Sabih, and Eid were soon released.  <P><br /><br />The Galilee Liberators consisted of seven young men from northern Israel.  The group was described as religious-nationalist, and had no apparent links to any of the other large terrorist organizations operating in the region, namely HAMAS and Hezbollah.  With the arrest and indictment of the seven members of the cell, authorities believed that the Galilee Liberators had been neutralized. <P><br /><br />In January 2005, nearly two years after her disappearance, a group calling themselves the Galilee Liberators claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Dana Bennet.  In an Arabic leaflet sent to the Associated Press, the group said that Bennet was alive, and demanded the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for her freedom.  The statement also demanded an apology from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "for all violations and crimes that were committed by the occupation army."  Israeli authorities investigated the leaflet, but no arrests have been made.  <P><br />