Security official tells AFP prisoner exchange deal involving the release of two Hizbullah militants in return for body of Israeli soldier may take place Monday afternoon on Israeli-Lebanese border
A breakthrough may be underway in an Israel-Lebanon prisoner exchange deal, AFP reported Monday. As part of the exchange, Israel will release a Lebanese prisoner and the bodies of two Hizbullah militants in return for the body of an Israeli soldier, a security official told the French news agency.”The body and prisoner exchange could take place between Lebanon and Israel this afternoon at the Naquora crossing on the Israeli-Lebanese border,” the source said. The source did not specify if the Israeli’s body belongs to one of the two missing soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah in July is last year.
“We don’t know when the Israeli soldier was killed,” he added.
According to the source, the two Hizbullah militants were killed in the Second Lebanon War
