Luminous Historic Achievements of Resistance..Major Swap Deals with Zionist Entity

Local Editor

The Arab struggle against "Israeli" aggressions is full of luminous historic achievements in more than one prisoners swap.

Proving day after day that the Zionist enemy understands only the language of force, "Loyalty of the Free" Swap reminds of the prisoner exchanges that took place since the seventies of the last century:

On March 1974, 65 Palestinians were liberated in exchange of two "Israeli" soldiers captured in Egypt on charges of espionage.
Five years later and on the 14th of the same month, "Israel" released 76 Palestinian resistance fighters against an "Israeli" military soldier captured in Lebanon on April 1978.

In the 1983 - "Israel" freed 4,600 Arab detainees in return for six "Israeli" soldiers held in Lebanon.

Similarly, On June 1984 -" Israel" swaps 291 Syrians captured in battle and the remains of 72 Syrians for six "Israelis" and five bodies, only two of which are positively identified as "Israelis". In the same swap, "Israel" also freed 20 Arab Palestinian civilians detained for spying against.

May 1985 - Nine months of negotiations passed before "Israel" agreed to release 1,150 Arab prisoners in exchange for three "Israel" soldiers held by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.

One month later, on June-July 1985 - "Israel" freed 331 Lebanese detainees. Lebanese leaders say their freedom was guaranteed in exchange for the return of 39 foreign passengers hijacked in an American TWA airliner to Beirut.
July 1996 - Hizbullah succeeded in achieving historic victory on "Israel" making the Zionist entity surrender to carry out a German-brokered swap when the bodies of 123 Lebanese resistance fighters are returned to Lebanon in exchange for the remains of two "Israeli" soldiers. In the same swap, the Lebanese resistance freed 17 fighters of the "Israeli" agents which in turn freed 45 Lebanese prisoners.

On January 2004 -"Israel" was also obliged to release 436 Palestinian and other Arab prisoners as well as 23 Lebanese prisoners among whom were Mustafa Dirani and Sheikh Abd al-Karim Obeid in a swap with Hizbullah for the return of Elhanan Tannenbaum, an "Israeli" businessman, and three dead "Israeli" soldiers captured on a border patrol in 2000.
July 2008 - Releasing five Lebanese resistance fighters among which was the Dean of Lebanese Prisoners in "Israeli" prisons Samir Kintar as well as hundreds of hundreds of martyrs' bodies and dozens of Palestinian prisoners, Hizbullah returned two "Israeli" dead soldiers, captured in 2006 to the Zionist entity.

Oct. 2011 - "Israel" agreed a deal with Hamas that around 1,027 prisoners would be freed in exchange for "Israeli" soldier Gilad Shalit.
And the Promise continues as thousands of Palestinians wait the resistance's next swap.