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Israel to get report on 'deceased' Arad next week
By ICEJ News
04 Jul 2008
Israeli hostage negotiator Ofer Dekel returned from Germany on Thursday and affirmed that Hizbullah is expected to hand over next week the detailed report on the disappearance of IAF airman Ron Arad, missing since 1986, as part of the wider Israel-Hizbullah prisoner swap. Dekel met with German mediator Gerhard Konrad, who has already seen part or all of the Hizbullah report on Arad. According to Ha'aretz, Hizbullah will say their four-year search for information on Arad has led them to conclude that the navigator died in Lebanon over a decade ago. Once in Israel’s hands, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will examine the report and, if satisfactory, both sides will send representatives to Europe next week to sign the swap agreement, which will bring home kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in exchange for Samir Kuntar and four other Lebanese terrorists. In this intial stage, Israel is supposed to hand over any details on four Iranian diplomats who went missing in Beirut during the IDF vasion of Lebanon in 1982. Iranian officials this week charged that Israel has been secretly holding them all these years, but Jerusalem insists they know little about the diplomats' disappearnce at a Christian Phalangist checkpoint in the war torn city 26 years ago.
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