Hizbullah decorates South in anticipation of prisoner swap
Source: AFP, 14-07-2008
SIDON: Hizbullah is speeding up preparations in South Lebanon to celebrate a prisoner swap with ‘Israel' that is expected to take place next week. A worker at the media affairs office of the resistance movement in the town of Nabatiyeh said hundreds of volunteers have been hanging banners throughout the South to praise Hizbullah's role in having secured the exchange.
‘Israel's' Cabinet last month approved a deal for the release of five Lebanese prisoners, the remains of Hizbullah fighters and a number of Palestinians in exchange for ‘Israeli' troops Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Hizbullah captured the two Israelis in a border raid on July 12, 2006, causing ‘Israel' to launch a devastating 34-day war that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 ‘Israelis', mostly soldiers.
The decorations adorn the coastal road all the way from the ‘Israeli' border up to the southern port city of Sidon.
"We are a people who will not abandon our detainees in prison," and "Thanks to the weapons of the resistance, we will free our prisoners," read slogans taken from speeches by Hizbullah secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
On roads leading to the crossing point in Naqura on the border with ‘Israel', the group has hung Lebanese flags and yellow Hizbullah banners.
In Nabatiyeh, Hizbullah has prepared 200 coffins for the remains of fallen fighters that ‘Israel' is to turn over, the official said.
Celebrations are set to take place on the day of the swap in Sidon's Martyrs Square, the site of a mass grave of 200 people killed during ‘Israel's' 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
SIDON: Hizbullah is speeding up preparations in South Lebanon to celebrate a prisoner swap with ‘Israel' that is expected to take place next week. A worker at the media affairs office of the resistance movement in the town of Nabatiyeh said hundreds of volunteers have been hanging banners throughout the South to praise Hizbullah's role in having secured the exchange.
‘Israel's' Cabinet last month approved a deal for the release of five Lebanese prisoners, the remains of Hizbullah fighters and a number of Palestinians in exchange for ‘Israeli' troops Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Hizbullah captured the two Israelis in a border raid on July 12, 2006, causing ‘Israel' to launch a devastating 34-day war that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 ‘Israelis', mostly soldiers.
The decorations adorn the coastal road all the way from the ‘Israeli' border up to the southern port city of Sidon.
"We are a people who will not abandon our detainees in prison," and "Thanks to the weapons of the resistance, we will free our prisoners," read slogans taken from speeches by Hizbullah secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
On roads leading to the crossing point in Naqura on the border with ‘Israel', the group has hung Lebanese flags and yellow Hizbullah banners.
In Nabatiyeh, Hizbullah has prepared 200 coffins for the remains of fallen fighters that ‘Israel' is to turn over, the official said.
Celebrations are set to take place on the day of the swap in Sidon's Martyrs Square, the site of a mass grave of 200 people killed during ‘Israel's' 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
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