Israel Rejects Exchange for Soldiers’ Remains
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Hezbollah offered Friday to exchange the remains of two Israeli soldiers for two Lebanese guerrilla leaders abducted by Israel. The Jewish state rejected the offer.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, or Party of God, said the group would hand over the remains if Israel freed cleric Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, seized in 1989, and Mustapha Dirani, leader of the pro-Iranian Faithful Resistance, taken by Israeli commandos in May 1994.
The slain Israelis were not named, but Hezbollah captured Yossi Fink and Rachamim Sheikh in an ambush in 1986. The soldiers were believed to have been badly wounded.
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