The coffins of almost 200 Palestinian and Hezbollah fighters were draped in their national flags after being handed over by Israel [AFP]
Published On 27 Jul 200827 Jul 2008
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Israel recieved the remains of two soldiers captured by Hezbollah in 2006 [AFP]
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Khaled Zidan, Maher Kurani, Mohammed Sarur, Hussein Suleiman and Samir Kuntar, the freed Lebanese prisoners, were greeted by Lebanon's leaders at Beirut's airport [AFP]
The Israeli coffins were taken to Shraga army base near the northern city of Nahariya, where a short memorial service was held [AFP]
Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, comforted Karnit Goldwasser, the widow of one of the returned Israeli soldiers during a memorial ceremony [AFP]
Samir Kuntar broke the bars of a mock prison as he celebrated at a stadium in Beirut's southern suburb [AFP]
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, embraced Samir Kuntar and the other freed prisoners during celebrations at a stadium in Beirut's southern suburbs [AFP]
