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Hezbollah, Israel swap bodies
15/10/2007 19:02 - (SA)
Naqura - Israel and Lebanon carried out a prisoner swap on Monday, with the Jewish state handing over the bodies of two Hezbollah fighters in exchange for the remains of an Israeli man, a security source said.
"The swap of the bodies of two Hezbollah fighters for the remains of an Israeli man has taken place," said the source, who did not wish to be identified.
The exchange happened at the Naqura crossing between Israel and Lebanon.
The source said officials were waiting for ambulances transporting the remains of the two Lebanese militants to leave the crossing and head to the Lebanese capital.
He said the two Hezbollah fighters were killed during the 34-day war in Lebanon last summer between the Shi'ite militant group and Israel.
The dead Israeli was an Ethiopan immigrant who drowned in Israel in 2005 and whose body was swept north to the Lebanese coast, where it was recovered by Hezbollah, the source said.
There were earlier reports that a Hezbollah militant seized by Israel during last year's war would also be released, but it was unclear by early evening whether he was included in the swap.
- AFP
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