Ron Arad’s Family Given New Photos
Source: Al-Manar TV, 14-07-2008
After 22 years, two photographs of missing ‘Israeli' airman Ron Arad, as well as three letters written by him and fragments of a diary, were given to his wife on Sunday.
The personal material was part of an 80-page report by Hizbullah detailing the group's search for Arad, who was shot down over Lebanon and captured alive in 1986. While the letters and diary fragments were kept private, the two photographs were released to the public on Sunday.
The report, which did not solve the mystery of what happened to Arad, represents the first stage of a planned prisoner swap that includes the release of two occupation soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who were captured by Hizbullah in July 2006.
The Hizbullah report is merely an updated version of a report it passed to ‘Israel' in 2004, defense officials said on Sunday. The new information, aside from the personal documents and photographs from Arad, concern efforts made by Hizbullah to find Arad including, according to ‘Israel's' Channel 10, names of people it interrogated who might be able to provide ‘Israel' with new leads.
But the conclusion remains the same as the 2004 report, said defense officials: that Arad went missing somewhere between the night of May 4, 1988 and the morning of May 5, and probably died.
On Sunday, officials from the Mossad, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Military Intelligence met to review the 80-page, Arabic-language document that was forwarded to ‘Israel' on Saturday and purports to detail what happened to Arad since he was shot down over Lebanon in October 1986.
On Tuesday, the cabinet will vote again on the swap after being briefed on the Arad report.
After 22 years, two photographs of missing ‘Israeli' airman Ron Arad, as well as three letters written by him and fragments of a diary, were given to his wife on Sunday.
The personal material was part of an 80-page report by Hizbullah detailing the group's search for Arad, who was shot down over Lebanon and captured alive in 1986. While the letters and diary fragments were kept private, the two photographs were released to the public on Sunday.
The report, which did not solve the mystery of what happened to Arad, represents the first stage of a planned prisoner swap that includes the release of two occupation soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who were captured by Hizbullah in July 2006.
The Hizbullah report is merely an updated version of a report it passed to ‘Israel' in 2004, defense officials said on Sunday. The new information, aside from the personal documents and photographs from Arad, concern efforts made by Hizbullah to find Arad including, according to ‘Israel's' Channel 10, names of people it interrogated who might be able to provide ‘Israel' with new leads.
But the conclusion remains the same as the 2004 report, said defense officials: that Arad went missing somewhere between the night of May 4, 1988 and the morning of May 5, and probably died.
On Sunday, officials from the Mossad, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Military Intelligence met to review the 80-page, Arabic-language document that was forwarded to ‘Israel' on Saturday and purports to detail what happened to Arad since he was shot down over Lebanon in October 1986.
On Tuesday, the cabinet will vote again on the swap after being briefed on the Arad report.
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