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| Israel and Hezbollah swap remains | Israel and Hezbollah swap remains |
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| Israel and the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah have exchanged the remains of an Israeli for a prisoner and the bodies of two guerrillas. | |
| The International Red Cross transported the bodies over the border near the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura. | The International Red Cross transported the bodies over the border near the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura. |
| The identity of the Israeli is unknown, but officials say he was a civilian. | The identity of the Israeli is unknown, but officials say he was a civilian. |
| Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in July 2006 provoked a 34-day conflict with Israel in which more than 1,250 people, mostly civilians, died. | Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in July 2006 provoked a 34-day conflict with Israel in which more than 1,250 people, mostly civilians, died. |
| Both Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser are still believed to be in captivity, although Israeli officials have raised the possibility that they may not have survived the cross-border raid by Hezbollah. | Both Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser are still believed to be in captivity, although Israeli officials have raised the possibility that they may not have survived the cross-border raid by Hezbollah. |
| 'Very proud' | |
| Lebanese troops kept journalists and civilians away from the border area ahead of the exchange on Monday, but an Israeli military vehicle was seen crossing into the demilitarized zone around sundown and returning shortly afterwards. | |
| Two bodies were earlier exhumed from a cemetery in northern Israel | |
| Two Red Cross ambulances also drove into the zone near the Israeli border, apparently to receive the Lebanese prisoner and the two bodies. | |
| Unconfirmed reports say the dead Israeli was an Ethiopian immigrant who drowned in the Mediterranean in 2005 and whose body washed up on the Lebanese coast. | |
| One Lebanese official told the Reuters news agency earlier that the man had "died of a cause unrelated to last year's aggression". | |
| The dead Lebanese are said to be Ali Wizwaz and Mohammed Dimashqiya, two Hezbollah fighters who were killed during the 2006 conflict with Israel. | |
| "I'm very proud of my son who gave up his life for his nation," Hussein Wizwaz, the father of one of the two men, said whilst waiting near the border crossing. | |
| The exchange is believed to have been arranged by a UN-appointed mediator. |