Source: Al-Manar TV, 21-1-2008
Lebanese daily al-Akhbar said Monday that it had evidence of the "Israeli" occupation soldiers' body parts left behind in Lebanon by the "Israeli" army.
Confirming Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech Saturday, al-Akhbar presented as proof a photo of a dog-tag with the personal details of an "Israeli" occupation soldier killed during the Second Lebanon War. The article in the Lebanese was written by journalist Ibrahim al-Amin, who said he could not publish the photographs for "humanitarian reasons."
Sayyed Nasrallah, one of "Israel's" most wanted men, appeared in public to attend a Muslim Shiite religious event in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. "We have the heads, the hands, the feet and even a nearly intact cadaver from the head down to the pelvis," his eminence said in his speech. "The "Israeli" army left behind the remains of the bodies of a large number of soldiers."
The Lebanese daily said that Sayyed Nasrallah had achieved his goal of shaming "Israeli" military and political establishment in his speech last week, particularly in light of the upcoming publication of the Winograd Commission's report investigating the war.
Al-Amin, quoted "knowledgeable sources" as saying that "Israel" had been trying to avoid the issue for some time. One of the sources said that "Israeli" occupation army officials may have believed that this humane issue was finalized with the families, but that they failed to reveal the fact that the soldiers' remains were left behind in Lebanon since the first day of the war.
According to the source, "Israel's" demands to reveal the fate of the remains left behind were delivered to Hizbullah at the end of the war by a Red Cross representative.
Al-Amin also said Sayyed Nasrallah had no intention to decrease his demands for the detainee exchange deal to release the two "Israeli" captured soldiers in exchange for the release of all Lebanese detainees and some Palestinian and Arab detainees.