Five Hezbollah prisoners, released by Israel as part of a controversial swap, have been welcomed home as heroes by a large crowd on their return to Lebanon.
The five include Samir Qantar who has been in prison for almost thirty years for the killing of an Israeli family during a guerrilla raid in 1979. Earlier, the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers taken prisoner by Hezbollah in 2006 were returned as part of the deal to Israel. Their abduction sparked off Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap set ...
Israel offers direct talks to Lebanon ...
Hezbollah seizes large parts of Beirut ... a month-long invasion of Lebanon by Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than one thousand, mostly Lebanese, people. As part of the deal Israel will also hand over the bodies of some 200 Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters.
(Deutsche Welle)
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