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Nesher was a 23-year-old rookie in the Israeli secret service when he was captured May 1,1984 by Syrian forces, who occupied parts of Lebanon at the time. Israeli and Syrian forces were facing off over the Bekaa region - the area near Syria that Israel attacked earlier this week, including bombings on the town of Baalbek. There were fears that Nesher's capture would touch off a large-scale confrontation. He was brought to Damascus where he says he underwent two months of interrogation and torture. He was eventually released as a part of an exchange for more...
...Syrians caught up to us and surrounded the Lebanese battalion. They threatened to kill the Lebanese commander's family if he didn't turn us over to them. So the commander agreed, and they put us in a truck. We were brought to an air force base that was already surrounded by Syrian troops...
...cannot give more details than that - but we lost our way. I was driving the car with two friends, both 24 years old. We passed two checkpoints manned by the Lebanese army and were waved through. We approached a third checkpoint and all of a sudden I saw Syrian flags. About 70 to 80 m away, I stopped the car immediately...
...American car, and we wore civilian clothes. We had maps and guns in the car. As we reversed quickly, the Syrian soldiers fired at us, hitting the front window. The car skipped over onto an embankment. By then, we were shooting back using pistols and machine guns, and escaped on foot...
...June 28, 1984, my captors came to shave me and take my picture. The three of us were brought together and we met a representative from Switzerland. We didn't believe him when he said that we, along with the other three soldiers, were being exchanged for 350 Syrian prisoners. We were so frightened...