Thousands of people have attended a memorial service in Beirut for eight Hezbollah fighters killed in the 2006 war with Israel and whose bodies were returned to their homeland on Wednesday. The remains of the eight fighters were handed over to Hezbollah as part of a prisoner swap with Israel that included the return of 199 bodies in total, along with the release of five Lebanese men being held prisoner in Israel.
In exchange, Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border raid on July 12, 2006, that sparked a month-long war Israel buries soldiers returned in prisoner swap ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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