Lebanon Prepares to Welcome Captives
Source: Alalam.ir, 01-07-2008
BEIRUT--Families of Lebanese captives held in ‘Israeli' regime's jails are preparing for the return of their loved ones after the Zionist's cabinet approved a prisoner swap with the resistance movement Hizbullah on Sunday.
Lebanese political leaders also reacted positively and with a rare sense of unity to the planned prisoner exchange between the resistance and the ‘Israeli' regime.
The leader of Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) MP Michel Aoun, who is aligned with Hizbullah in the opposition, congratulated "the resistance on the imminent release of Samir Kontar."
Aoun added that the Lebanese "should know the whole truth" behind the events of the summer 2006 war with ‘Israeli' regime, saying that the US Embassy in Lebanon had contacted senior FPM official Gebran Bassil in "an enraged and threatening manner" after news broke that Hizbullah had captured two ‘Israeli' troops in a cross-border raid.
Meanwhile, Future Movement head MP Saad Hariri on Monday "welcomed the release of Lebanese prisoners from ‘Israeli' enemy jails," and expressed hope that this would "be an occasion for national unity."
He added that the upcoming exchange "should serve as the first step toward ending years of oppression and suffering in ‘Israeli' jails."
On Sunday, soon after the agreement was announced, Hizbullah member and Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Fneish has said that "the resistance was able to impose its conditions on the ‘Israeli' enemy during the exchange negotiations."
"This proves the defeat of the ‘Israeli' enemy in 2006," he added. "We have returned respect for the value of humanity - a respect stripped away by the formal Arab order."
Referring to the Arab political establishment, Fneish stressed that "Men who resist - whether they be Lebanese, Arab or [simply] against any form of oppression, cannot fail in the face of the enemy."
Elsewhere, among the Lebanese people, Mohammad Abdel Hamid Srour's 60-year-old mother Sobhieh has been waiting for her son's return for almost two years now. Srour, now 21, was captured by the ‘Israeli' Army during the 2006 war.
Sobhieh Srour said that she knew in her heart that her son would return, as promised by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Nasrallah's portrait hangs from the wall of her temporarily home in Aita al-Shaab, a Southern town close to the occupied territories border. Her own house lies in ruins, completely destroyed by the ‘Israeli' military during the same war in which her son became a prisoner.
After waiting so long, she added, all she wants now is to hold her son in her arms.
Other Southern towns and villages are getting ready to celebrate by putting up banners representing Samir Kintar, held since 1979, and reasserting their support for the resistance.
The Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah also considered the prisoner exchange deal as a 'big victory' not only for Lebanon but also for the whole region.
The vice President of Hizbullah Political Council, Mahmoud Qomati, told Alalam on Monday that the prisoners exchange deal was a triumph for resistance not only in Lebanon but also for all resistance groups in the region.
Qomati said the exchange deal, expected to complete within a few days, would give a new impetus to the resistance movements across the region to resume activities against 'Israeli' regime's aggression, occupation and tyranny.
He also said that the families of prisoners began preparations to receive them, adding that a joyful atmosphere has been created especially in the regions and cities of those prisoners supposed to be released under the agreed deal.
BEIRUT--Families of Lebanese captives held in ‘Israeli' regime's jails are preparing for the return of their loved ones after the Zionist's cabinet approved a prisoner swap with the resistance movement Hizbullah on Sunday.
Lebanese political leaders also reacted positively and with a rare sense of unity to the planned prisoner exchange between the resistance and the ‘Israeli' regime.
The leader of Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) MP Michel Aoun, who is aligned with Hizbullah in the opposition, congratulated "the resistance on the imminent release of Samir Kontar."
Aoun added that the Lebanese "should know the whole truth" behind the events of the summer 2006 war with ‘Israeli' regime, saying that the US Embassy in Lebanon had contacted senior FPM official Gebran Bassil in "an enraged and threatening manner" after news broke that Hizbullah had captured two ‘Israeli' troops in a cross-border raid.
Meanwhile, Future Movement head MP Saad Hariri on Monday "welcomed the release of Lebanese prisoners from ‘Israeli' enemy jails," and expressed hope that this would "be an occasion for national unity."
He added that the upcoming exchange "should serve as the first step toward ending years of oppression and suffering in ‘Israeli' jails."
On Sunday, soon after the agreement was announced, Hizbullah member and Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Fneish has said that "the resistance was able to impose its conditions on the ‘Israeli' enemy during the exchange negotiations."
"This proves the defeat of the ‘Israeli' enemy in 2006," he added. "We have returned respect for the value of humanity - a respect stripped away by the formal Arab order."
Referring to the Arab political establishment, Fneish stressed that "Men who resist - whether they be Lebanese, Arab or [simply] against any form of oppression, cannot fail in the face of the enemy."
Elsewhere, among the Lebanese people, Mohammad Abdel Hamid Srour's 60-year-old mother Sobhieh has been waiting for her son's return for almost two years now. Srour, now 21, was captured by the ‘Israeli' Army during the 2006 war.
Sobhieh Srour said that she knew in her heart that her son would return, as promised by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Nasrallah's portrait hangs from the wall of her temporarily home in Aita al-Shaab, a Southern town close to the occupied territories border. Her own house lies in ruins, completely destroyed by the ‘Israeli' military during the same war in which her son became a prisoner.
After waiting so long, she added, all she wants now is to hold her son in her arms.
Other Southern towns and villages are getting ready to celebrate by putting up banners representing Samir Kintar, held since 1979, and reasserting their support for the resistance.
The Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah also considered the prisoner exchange deal as a 'big victory' not only for Lebanon but also for the whole region.
The vice President of Hizbullah Political Council, Mahmoud Qomati, told Alalam on Monday that the prisoners exchange deal was a triumph for resistance not only in Lebanon but also for all resistance groups in the region.
Qomati said the exchange deal, expected to complete within a few days, would give a new impetus to the resistance movements across the region to resume activities against 'Israeli' regime's aggression, occupation and tyranny.
He also said that the families of prisoners began preparations to receive them, adding that a joyful atmosphere has been created especially in the regions and cities of those prisoners supposed to be released under the agreed deal.
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