Hizbullah makes `good will` gesture swap with "Israel"

Source: Al-Manar TV, 16-10-2007
"Israel" and Hizbullah completed Monday a limited prisoners exchange. "Israel" had transferred two bodies of Islamic resistance martyrs who fell in the 2006 "Israeli" aggression against Lebanon and a detainee. In return Hizbullah handed the body of an "Israeli" settler who was swept to Lebanese shore after he had drowned in Haifa.
Officials from the U.N. and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the exchange at the frontier Lebanese town of Naqoura.
"Israel" released detainee Hassan Naim Aqil and handed over the bodies of martyrs Ali Wizwaz and Mohammed Damashqiah. In addition to the civilian`s body, "Israel" received "additional information about other cases" of missing "Israeli"s, an "Israeli" official said without giving any further details.
In a statement, Hizbullah said that the exchange came as a humanitarian good will gesture between both sides. "Hizbullah hopes that such good intentions would make the longed for progress to end all pending issues related to prisoners and detainees, Gof willing," Hizbullah`s statement added.
Meanwhile, former "Israeli" Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh said the deal "has an element of balance and should be welcomed". He said the importance should not be exaggerated, but "it is important that a route of communication has been opened".
Hizbullah still holds "Israeli" soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who it seized in July 2006. The U.N.-appointed mediator is working on a deal to get the soldiers exchanged for Lebanese and other detainees in "Israeli" jails.
On January 29, 2004, "Israel" freed nearly 450 detainees, most of
them Palestinians and Arabs, in exchange for "Israeli" former intelligence officer Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies of three soldiers. The exchange was brokered by German intelligence chief Ernst Uhrlau.