Zionist Entity: Hizbullah Swap Set For Wednesday
Source: alalam.ir, 13-07-2008
AL-QUDS-‘Israel' said on Sunday that five Lebanese prisoners, including Samir Kantar, will be freed on Wednesday in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hizbullah in 2006.
"Samir Kantar and four other Lebanese prisoners -- Khaled Zidan, Maher Kurani, Mohammed Sarur and Hussein Suleiman -- will be taken on Wednesday from their centers of detention to a place to be decided by the ‘Israeli' army," prisons spokesman Ian Domnitz said.
A statement by the prisons authority said the men would then be freed in keeping with the terms of a government decision on June 29 to go ahead with an exchange of prisoners with Hizbullah.
Under the deal, ‘Israel' will release five Lebanese prisoners, the remains of Hizbullah fighters and a number of Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of its soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Hizbullah captured the two ‘Israelis' in a cross-border raid on July 12, 2006 that sparked a devastating 33-day war with ‘Israel' that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 ‘Israelis', mostly soldiers.
'Israeli' Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said the two soldiers are dead.
But Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah said earlier this month that "so far Hizbullah has not handed over any information about the fate of the two soldiers. Anything said in ‘Israel' is mere
speculation."
The Israeli media said on Saturday that the government had received a report from Hizbullah on airman Ron Arad who went missing in Lebanon in 1986 -- one of the conditions to be fulfilled before the prisoner swap goes ahead.
The media reports, which were not immediately confirmed by the government, said Hizbullah said in its report that Arad had died but it had no specific information.
Officials had made it clear the deal would go ahead only after ‘Israel' received intelligence on the air force navigator missing since a mission over south Lebanon during the country's civil war.
Hizbullah chief sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said early July that if the deal goes through, "Lebanon will be the first Arab state to close the file of its prisoners. There will be no more Lebanese prisoners in ‘Israeli' jails."
AL-QUDS-‘Israel' said on Sunday that five Lebanese prisoners, including Samir Kantar, will be freed on Wednesday in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hizbullah in 2006.
"Samir Kantar and four other Lebanese prisoners -- Khaled Zidan, Maher Kurani, Mohammed Sarur and Hussein Suleiman -- will be taken on Wednesday from their centers of detention to a place to be decided by the ‘Israeli' army," prisons spokesman Ian Domnitz said.
A statement by the prisons authority said the men would then be freed in keeping with the terms of a government decision on June 29 to go ahead with an exchange of prisoners with Hizbullah.
Under the deal, ‘Israel' will release five Lebanese prisoners, the remains of Hizbullah fighters and a number of Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of its soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Hizbullah captured the two ‘Israelis' in a cross-border raid on July 12, 2006 that sparked a devastating 33-day war with ‘Israel' that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 ‘Israelis', mostly soldiers.
'Israeli' Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said the two soldiers are dead.
But Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah said earlier this month that "so far Hizbullah has not handed over any information about the fate of the two soldiers. Anything said in ‘Israel' is mere
speculation."
The Israeli media said on Saturday that the government had received a report from Hizbullah on airman Ron Arad who went missing in Lebanon in 1986 -- one of the conditions to be fulfilled before the prisoner swap goes ahead.
The media reports, which were not immediately confirmed by the government, said Hizbullah said in its report that Arad had died but it had no specific information.
Officials had made it clear the deal would go ahead only after ‘Israel' received intelligence on the air force navigator missing since a mission over south Lebanon during the country's civil war.
Hizbullah chief sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said early July that if the deal goes through, "Lebanon will be the first Arab state to close the file of its prisoners. There will be no more Lebanese prisoners in ‘Israeli' jails."
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