Israel to free first Lebanese detainee
Israel will reportedly release a Lebanese detainee sentenced by the regime to six years in jail in 2002 and it will free more prisoners soon.
“Nassim Nisr called a few days ago and informed us that he will be released on Sunday,” his brother Omran Nisr told AFP on Tuesday.
Nassim, born in 1968 to a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, left Lebanon during the Israeli invasion in 1982 and joined his mother’s family in occupied Palestine, where he settled near Tel Aviv.
He was arrested by Israeli agents in 2002 over ‘collaborating with Hezbollah.’
In a speech on Monday, the eighth anniversary of Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah announced the release of Lebanese detainees in Israeli jails in a near future.
Israeli army radio had also reported on Monday that the regime was prepared to release five Lebanese prisoners and return the bodies of 10 Hezbollah fighters in exchange for two of its soldiers captured in 2006.
There have been a series of prisoner swaps between the Israeli regime and Hezbollah, brokered by German mediators.
May 27th, 2008 | Category: Detainee, Israel, Release
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