Another Truthful Pledge...Our Heroes Have Returned
Source: Al-Manar TV, 16-7-2008
At 17:25 local time Wednesday, Lebanon finally embraced the five released detainees after Hizbullah succeeded to exchange them and the remains of some 200 martyrs with two dead "Israeli" soldiers in the framework of Operation Al-Redwan, a UN brokered swap deal between Hizbullah and "Israel".
The operation is the last of Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's true pledges.
An ICRC minibus transported Samir Kintar, Maher Kourani, Khodor Zaidan, Mohammed Srour and Hussein Suleiman from occupied territories to Naqura south of Lebanon. As previously announced by Hizbullah official Wafik Safa, upon the arrival of the five heroes, the remains of more "Israeli" soldiers killed in the 2006 "Israeli" aggression against Lebanon were handed over to the ICRC. The heroes put on their military uniforms before being received by thousands of people whether in south Lebanon, the airport or Dahye.
Sayyed Ibrahm Amine el-Sayyed, the head of Hizbullah's Political Council and Hizbullah's official in south Lebanon received the five heroes. "You have returned as heroes and free men. From here they entered Palestine, only the trees and the land saw them. And from here they returned to the country of resistance, Jihad, martyrdom, victory and honor," his eminence said.
At an earlier stage, Hizbullah official Wafik Safa unveiled the fate of the two "Israeli" soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and handed the ICRC their bodies in two coffins.
"Israel" had positively identified the bodies of the dead soldiers, public radio said.
Hizbullah has prepared a hero's welcome for its four fighters and senior detainee Samir Kintar at the Naqura crossing, Beirut's international airport and Beirut's southern suburb where Sayyed Nasrallah is to give a speech to hail the success of operation Al-Redwan (named after martyr Imad Moghniyeh or Hajj Redwan) in closing the prisoners file with the Zionist entity.
According to unconfirmed reports, they will visit the grave of martyr Redwan upon their arrival to the southern suburb.
Celebratory banners and flags were flying along the main coastal highway from the border with occupied Palestine in Naqura to Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon and the cabinet has declared Wednesday a national holiday.
Hizbullah had earlier received the bodies of twelve martyrs including 8 Islamic Resistance martyrs who fell during confrontations with "Israeli" occupation soldiers in Lebanon in 2006. The other four bodies are for martyr Dalal Moghrabi and three of her comrades who carried out a heroic operation in the late 70's inside occupied territories.
Draped in Lebanese and Palestinian flags, the caskets of the martyrs were given a red carpet welcome. Lebanese, Palestinian and Hizbullah flag holders and the families of the martyrs as well as Hizbullah officials and representatives of other parties welcomed the martyrs as an Islamic Resistance unit gave a military salute to their brothers in citizenship, religion and arms.
The UN-brokered swap, which was given final approval by the "Israeli" cabinet on Tuesday, is the eighth between "Israel" and Hizbullah since 1991.
At 17:25 local time Wednesday, Lebanon finally embraced the five released detainees after Hizbullah succeeded to exchange them and the remains of some 200 martyrs with two dead "Israeli" soldiers in the framework of Operation Al-Redwan, a UN brokered swap deal between Hizbullah and "Israel".
The operation is the last of Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's true pledges.
An ICRC minibus transported Samir Kintar, Maher Kourani, Khodor Zaidan, Mohammed Srour and Hussein Suleiman from occupied territories to Naqura south of Lebanon. As previously announced by Hizbullah official Wafik Safa, upon the arrival of the five heroes, the remains of more "Israeli" soldiers killed in the 2006 "Israeli" aggression against Lebanon were handed over to the ICRC. The heroes put on their military uniforms before being received by thousands of people whether in south Lebanon, the airport or Dahye.
Sayyed Ibrahm Amine el-Sayyed, the head of Hizbullah's Political Council and Hizbullah's official in south Lebanon received the five heroes. "You have returned as heroes and free men. From here they entered Palestine, only the trees and the land saw them. And from here they returned to the country of resistance, Jihad, martyrdom, victory and honor," his eminence said.
At an earlier stage, Hizbullah official Wafik Safa unveiled the fate of the two "Israeli" soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and handed the ICRC their bodies in two coffins.
"Israel" had positively identified the bodies of the dead soldiers, public radio said.
Hizbullah has prepared a hero's welcome for its four fighters and senior detainee Samir Kintar at the Naqura crossing, Beirut's international airport and Beirut's southern suburb where Sayyed Nasrallah is to give a speech to hail the success of operation Al-Redwan (named after martyr Imad Moghniyeh or Hajj Redwan) in closing the prisoners file with the Zionist entity.
According to unconfirmed reports, they will visit the grave of martyr Redwan upon their arrival to the southern suburb.
Celebratory banners and flags were flying along the main coastal highway from the border with occupied Palestine in Naqura to Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon and the cabinet has declared Wednesday a national holiday.
Hizbullah had earlier received the bodies of twelve martyrs including 8 Islamic Resistance martyrs who fell during confrontations with "Israeli" occupation soldiers in Lebanon in 2006. The other four bodies are for martyr Dalal Moghrabi and three of her comrades who carried out a heroic operation in the late 70's inside occupied territories.
Draped in Lebanese and Palestinian flags, the caskets of the martyrs were given a red carpet welcome. Lebanese, Palestinian and Hizbullah flag holders and the families of the martyrs as well as Hizbullah officials and representatives of other parties welcomed the martyrs as an Islamic Resistance unit gave a military salute to their brothers in citizenship, religion and arms.
The UN-brokered swap, which was given final approval by the "Israeli" cabinet on Tuesday, is the eighth between "Israel" and Hizbullah since 1991.
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