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| Israel signs prisoner swap deal | Israel signs prisoner swap deal |
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| Israel has formally signed a deal with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to exchange prisoners. | Israel has formally signed a deal with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to exchange prisoners. |
| An Israeli statement said the agreement had been signed "in the presence of a UN representative". | An Israeli statement said the agreement had been signed "in the presence of a UN representative". |
| Under the deal, two Israeli soldiers - seized in a 2006 raid and believed to be dead - will be handed over. | Under the deal, two Israeli soldiers - seized in a 2006 raid and believed to be dead - will be handed over. |
| The bodies of fighters killed during years of conflict between the two sides will also be handed over by Israel, which has already begun exhuming them. | The bodies of fighters killed during years of conflict between the two sides will also be handed over by Israel, which has already begun exhuming them. |
| Legal challenge | |
| The capture of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev triggered a 34-day war between Israel and the Hezbollah movement. | The capture of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev triggered a 34-day war between Israel and the Hezbollah movement. |
| Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he believes the pair are dead. Hezbollah has not confirmed that. | Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he believes the pair are dead. Hezbollah has not confirmed that. |
| Samir Qantar is among the Hezbollah prisoners to be released under the deal | |
| Military officials have indicated that the exchange, agreed by the cabinet a week ago, may take place next week. | |
| Samir Qantar, who has been in jail since 1979 for his part in a deadly guerrilla raid, will be among the five Lebanese prisoners handed over by Israel. | |
| The release of Qantar is particularly controversial in Israel, BBC correspondents say, because of his role in the deaths of three Israelis, among them a policeman and a young girl. | |
| The family of the policeman appealed to Israel's Supreme Court on Monday to block the exchange, the Associated Press news agency reports, but the attempt is not expected to succeed. | |
| Earlier, the Israeli military confirmed that it had begun exhuming the remains of Hezbollah guerrillas from a special cemetery in the north of the country, not far from the Israel-Lebanon border. | |
| Missing airman | |
| Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said last week that the group would also provide information on missing Israeli airman Ron Arad. | |
| Mr Arad has been missing since he bailed out of his plane over Lebanon in 1986 and was captured by Shia militiamen. | |
| His fate is unknown and has been the subject of much speculation in Israel over the past two decades. | |
| The AP quotes government spokesman Mark Regev on Monday as saying Israel had not yet received the promised report on his fate. | |
| Another Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, remains a prisoner of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. |