Israel today released the names of prisoners to be freed in a swap with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, after soldiers started exhuming the bodies of Lebanese fighters to be returned as part of the deal.

ISRAELI soldiers yesterday began digging up 59 bodies of Lebanese militants buried in a small plot in northern Israel, a first step toward a prisoner swap with the Hezbollah guerrilla group take place this week

ISRAEL’S Cabinet yesterday narrowly approved a contested prisoner swap with Hezbollah, even though it does not include a Israel’s most famous missing serviceman, an air force navigator captured 17 years ago.

Israel’s Cabinet today narrowly approved a contested prisoner swap with Hezbollah, even though it does not include a Israel’s most famous missing serviceman, an air force navigator captured 17 years ago.

Israel has agreed in principle to release about 400 Arab prisoners, including at least 200 Palestinians, in a swap with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, a Palestinian source said today.