Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that the negotiation for freeing two captured Israeli soldiers has made progress, local TV channel reported.
"The negotiation is uninterrupted and continual," Nasrallah said in a televised speech on the Shiite group's Manar TV, adding that talks concerning the two Israeli soldiers and (Lebanese)prisoners had gained positive progress.
Nasrallah's comments came one day after Israel and Hezbollah exchanged the remains of an Israeli civilian for a Lebanese prisoner and two Hezbollah fighters' bodies in a UN brokered deal.
On Sunday, Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat had reported that the two soldiers captured by Hezbollah had been handed over to Iran and could be freed in a German-brokered swap.
Israel launched a massive military offensive against Hezbollah last summer, after the latter seized the two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a deadly cross-border raid.
The war ended on August 14 last year under a UN-brokered ceasefire after fighting had killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 162 people in Israel, mostly soldiers.
Source: Xinhua
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