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Were they alive? No proof of life was ever given by Hizballah. And a medical report carried out a week after the ambush stated that in all likelihood, the two soldiers probably died of wounds soon after they were captured. Even with that grim knowledge, Israeli pressed ahead with the...
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet shrugged off warnings by its own top military and intelligence advisers and voted by a large majority to carry out a prisoner exchange with Hizballah. Reliable military sources told TIME that in exchange for Regev and Goldwasser, Israel agreed to hand over 15 Lebanese prisoners...
Israeli officials say that the prisoner exchange could happen "within a week to 10 days," probably via Germany, which is acting as an intermediary between Israel and its sworn enemy Hizballah.
This fragile truce has at least one thing going for it: Both Olmert and Hamas need it. The Israeli Prime Minister, who is being investigated for possible corruption, needs to rebuild his image and thinks he can do it by halting the barrage of rockets fired into southern Israel. Hamas...
On the other side of the boundary, one Palestinian driver was relieved by the truce. "Before today, I'd be worried that an Israeli missile would hit the car in front of me, or that my son would be in danger because he happened to walk by a place where...