Hizbullah Hands Report on Ron Arad over to "Israel"
Source: Al-Manar TV, 13-07-2008
Hizbullah handed over to ‘Israel' on Saturday the report it has compiled on efforts to reveal the fate of missing ‘Israel' Air Force navigator Ron Arad, who was captured in Lebanon in 1986, the ‘Israeli' daily Haaretz said Sunday.
According to the daily, security sources said that the report, which was brought to ‘Israel' by the German mediator Gerhard Konrad, does not address two major issues: the fate of Arad, whom Hizbullah believe is dead, and why his body has not been found.
Later Saturday or on Sunday Hizbullah is expected to provide supplementary information, including clarifications and answers to questions submitted by ‘Israel', Haaretz said.
Upon arriving in ‘Israel', the report was sent to be reviewed by Military Intelligence, Mossad and the Shin Bet security service, and was later to be passed on to Ilan Biran of the Prime Minister's Bureau.
In exchange for the report, ‘Israel' is to release a report on an Iranian journalist and three Iranian diplomats who were arrested by Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces, ‘Israel's' allies in Lebanon in the 1980's.
'Israeli' negotiator Ofer Dekel has been to Europe several times in recent weeks in connection to the report. He is expected to travel to the continent again this weekend.
Meanwhile, the prisoner exchange with Hizbullah is set to take place Wednesday or Thursday, at the Nakoura crossing, ‘Israeli' media said.
Next week ‘Israel' will issue an official announcement on the plans to release Samir Kintar and four Hizbullah resistance fighters held in ‘Israel', in order to let those opposed to the exchange petition the High Court of Justice.
Meanwhile, at the cemetery at the Galilee kibbutz of Amiad, the military rabbinate is finishing exhuming the remains of some 200 militants from Hizbullah and Palestinian organizations. They will be sent to Lebanon as part of the exchange.
Hizbullah handed over to ‘Israel' on Saturday the report it has compiled on efforts to reveal the fate of missing ‘Israel' Air Force navigator Ron Arad, who was captured in Lebanon in 1986, the ‘Israeli' daily Haaretz said Sunday.
According to the daily, security sources said that the report, which was brought to ‘Israel' by the German mediator Gerhard Konrad, does not address two major issues: the fate of Arad, whom Hizbullah believe is dead, and why his body has not been found.
Later Saturday or on Sunday Hizbullah is expected to provide supplementary information, including clarifications and answers to questions submitted by ‘Israel', Haaretz said.
Upon arriving in ‘Israel', the report was sent to be reviewed by Military Intelligence, Mossad and the Shin Bet security service, and was later to be passed on to Ilan Biran of the Prime Minister's Bureau.
In exchange for the report, ‘Israel' is to release a report on an Iranian journalist and three Iranian diplomats who were arrested by Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces, ‘Israel's' allies in Lebanon in the 1980's.
'Israeli' negotiator Ofer Dekel has been to Europe several times in recent weeks in connection to the report. He is expected to travel to the continent again this weekend.
Meanwhile, the prisoner exchange with Hizbullah is set to take place Wednesday or Thursday, at the Nakoura crossing, ‘Israeli' media said.
Next week ‘Israel' will issue an official announcement on the plans to release Samir Kintar and four Hizbullah resistance fighters held in ‘Israel', in order to let those opposed to the exchange petition the High Court of Justice.
Meanwhile, at the cemetery at the Galilee kibbutz of Amiad, the military rabbinate is finishing exhuming the remains of some 200 militants from Hizbullah and Palestinian organizations. They will be sent to Lebanon as part of the exchange.
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