The Lebanese Hezbollah group on Wednesday handed over two black coffins believed to contain the remains of two captured Israeli soldiers.
The coffins were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross before being driven across the Naqoura border into Israel, as the first step of the prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.
"Today we hand over Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev," Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa said at the Naqura border crossing, and thus confirming the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers captured two years ago, whose conditions have been theretofore unknown.
Israel is then to determine the identities of those in the coffins.
Once the identities are confirmed, Israel will then return four imprisoned Hezbollah militants - Maher Kourani, Khodor Zaidan, Mohammed Srour and Hussein Suleiman - and the Lebanese killer, Samir Kuntar, who was sentenced to life plus 40 years in prison for murdering three family members and a police officer in Nahariya in 1979.
At the border, Hezbollah leaders have already prepared a red-carpet reception for the returned prisoners.
Besides, Israel is also to hand over the bodies of 199 others killed while infiltrating northern Israel.
Source:Xinhua
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