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Date for Hezbollah-Israel prisoner swap set
Lebanon's Hezbollah group and Israel will exchange prisoners on Wednesday under a UN-mediated deal, Israel's Prisons Service said on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 18:37 July 13, 2008
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Occupied Jerusalem: Lebanon's Hezbollah group and Israel will exchange prisoners on Wednesday under a UN-mediated deal, Israel's Prisons Service said on Sunday.
Under the agreement, Israel is to release five Lebanese prisoners in exchange for two Israeli soldiers seized in a cross border raid in 2006.
Hezbollah has given no word on the condition of the two soldiers, although they are widely presumed dead.
A spokesman for the Prisons Service said the exchange would take place on Wednesday, but he declined to say where.
The Lebanese prisoners include Samir Qantar, who is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman as well as a man and his 4-year-old daughter.
Israel will also hand over the bodies of 200 Arabs killed while infiltrating northern Israel and Hezbollah will return body parts of Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 war in Lebanon.
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