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19-09-06, 18:25
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Israel on Monday charged three Hizbullah fighters arrested in Lebanon during the recent war with murder for involvement in deadly attacks on soldiers. In an indictment police submitted to the district court in the northern town of Nazareth, the three were charged with murder, attempted murder and membership in an enemy organization, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
A fourth Hizbullah member arrested during the war yet to be charged, Rosenfeld said.
The three are Hussein Suleiman, 22, Mohammad Srour, 20, and Maher Hourani, 30, Rosenfeld said.
Suleiman was involved in planning the July 12 cross-border raid, in which Hizbullah fighters infiltrated Israel to attack a border patrol, killing three soldiers and capturing two, Rosenfeld said, adding that Suleiman was involved in other deadly attacks on soldiers.
Srour and Hourani also participated in attacks against soldiers along the border, Rosenfeld said.
The three have confessed to participation in the attacks and to receiving military training in Iran, Rosenfeld said.
A Hizbullah spokesperson said Hizbullah does not have access yet to many places where its fighters were based because they are still occupied by the Israeli forces, hence they don't know the exact numbers of the captured fighters.
"We don't have the exact number because there are places still occupied by the Israeli enemy which we did not access yet," the spokesperson told The Daily Star.
Asked whether Hizbullah might ask the Lebanese government to take similar judiciary measures like those taken in Israel against the two Israeli soldiers they captured, the spokesperson said: "Hizbullah does not operate in this way."
Lebanese State Prosecutor Said Mirza declined to comment on the issue of whether Lebanon might initiate any similar procedures.
United Nations chief Kofi Annan announced earlier this month that Israel and Hizbullah have accepted UN mediation on the issue of the prisoners.
Annan has appointed his former special adviser Lakhdar Ibrahimi to mediate a possible agreement for swapping Leb-anese prisoners in return for freeing the reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun had met last week with Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and proposed to play a role in the swap.
Verhofstadt conveyed the message to Annan who reportedly said that "Aoun's help in the prisoners' exchange deal is not needed as he has already appointed a mediator."
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Israel on Monday charged three Hizbullah fighters arrested in Lebanon during the recent war with murder for involvement in deadly attacks on soldiers. In an indictment police submitted to the district court in the northern town of Nazareth, the three were charged with murder, attempted murder and membership in an enemy organization, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
A fourth Hizbullah member arrested during the war yet to be charged, Rosenfeld said.
The three are Hussein Suleiman, 22, Mohammad Srour, 20, and Maher Hourani, 30, Rosenfeld said.
Suleiman was involved in planning the July 12 cross-border raid, in which Hizbullah fighters infiltrated Israel to attack a border patrol, killing three soldiers and capturing two, Rosenfeld said, adding that Suleiman was involved in other deadly attacks on soldiers.
Srour and Hourani also participated in attacks against soldiers along the border, Rosenfeld said.
The three have confessed to participation in the attacks and to receiving military training in Iran, Rosenfeld said.
A Hizbullah spokesperson said Hizbullah does not have access yet to many places where its fighters were based because they are still occupied by the Israeli forces, hence they don't know the exact numbers of the captured fighters.
"We don't have the exact number because there are places still occupied by the Israeli enemy which we did not access yet," the spokesperson told The Daily Star.
Asked whether Hizbullah might ask the Lebanese government to take similar judiciary measures like those taken in Israel against the two Israeli soldiers they captured, the spokesperson said: "Hizbullah does not operate in this way."
Lebanese State Prosecutor Said Mirza declined to comment on the issue of whether Lebanon might initiate any similar procedures.
United Nations chief Kofi Annan announced earlier this month that Israel and Hizbullah have accepted UN mediation on the issue of the prisoners.
Annan has appointed his former special adviser Lakhdar Ibrahimi to mediate a possible agreement for swapping Leb-anese prisoners in return for freeing the reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun had met last week with Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and proposed to play a role in the swap.
Verhofstadt conveyed the message to Annan who reportedly said that "Aoun's help in the prisoners' exchange deal is not needed as he has already appointed a mediator."
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