Hezbollah Will Barter for Palestinian Prisoners
CBNNews.com
December 6, 2007
CBNNews.com - A senior Hamas official based in Lebanon announced that future prisoner exchanges between the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group and Israel would have to include Palestinian prisoners.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev have never been heard from since they were kidnapped in a cross-border attack by Hezbollah, the event that left eight IDF soldiers dead and sparked the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.
"Everyone knows that many efforts are currently invested in achieving a prisoner swap," said Osama Hamdan, according to a Lebanese news agency.
"We believe the Palestinian prisoners will be on the exchange," he said after meeting with Hezbollah's Sheikh Nabil Kauok in southern Lebanon.
Hamdan said that a large prisoner release would prove that "resistance achieves successes and not other methods."
Other terror organizations present at Wednesday's meeting included Islamic Jihad, affiliated with the Palestinian Authority's Fatah party.
Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, Ehud Goldwasser's wife Karnit said this was the second Hanukkah without her husband.
"This is the second Hanukkah we are celebrating without Udi [Ehud]," she said. "Hanukkah is a holiday that gives light and I won't have light in my house until Udi returns," she said.
"We won't stop the fight to bring him back, and the path is long yet," she said.
Throughout the eight-day Festival of Lights, a huge Hanukkiah [eight-branched Hanukkah candelarbrum] will be lit in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square in honor of the kidnapped soldiers. Next Tuesday at sunset, the seventh candle will be lit by members of their families.
Source: Haaretz
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