Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Operation Al-Redwan…Another Sincere Promise Fulfilled


Al-Manar

"16/07/2008 The Islamic Resistance and Israel carry out a prisoner exchange on Wednesday dubbed Operation Al-Redwan. The operation is the last of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s true pledges.

Hezbollah has prepared a hero's welcome for its four fighters and senior detainee Samir Kintar at the Naqura crossing, Beirut’s international airport and Beirut’s southern suburb. The heroes will return to Lebanon wearing their military uniforms......

In return for its two dead soldiers, Israel is to transfer to Lebanon the remains of 199 Lebanese, Palestinian and Arab martyrs exhumed over the past week. Hezbollah received the bodies of twelve martyrs including 8 Islamic resistance martyrs who fell during confrontations with Israeli occupation soldiers in Lebanon in 2006. The other four bodies are for martyr Dalal Moghrabi and three of her comrades who carried out a heroic operation in the late 70's inside occupied territories.

The UN-brokered swap, which was given final approval by the Israeli cabinet on Tuesday, is the eighth between Israel and Hezbollah since 1991.

Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper has billed the festivities in Lebanon, where the released men are to be flown to Beirut to be greeted by President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Fouad Saniora, as "a celebration of evil."

Sayyed Nasrallah is to give a speech in Beirut's southern suburbs to hail the success of operation Al-Redwan (named after martyr Imad Moghniyyeh or Hajj Redwan) in closing the prisoners file with the Zionist entity. "

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