7 juillet 2008

       Members of the IDF Rabbinate were exhuming the bodies of approximately 200 Hizbullah men killed in fighting with Israel from their graves in a cemetery near Safed. The bodies are to be transferred to Lebanon in the first stage of the prisoner swap deal with Hizbullah, under which captured IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, presumed dead, will be returned to Israel in exchange for Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar and several other Hizbullah prisoners. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Office... [Lire la suite]

      Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to meet next week with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at an international conference in Paris. An Israeli official told the French news agency that the two men would hold one-on-one talks on the sidelines of a July 13 summit hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. The gathering is to launch a new Mediterranean Union aimed at boosting cooperation between the European Union and North African and Middle Eastern states. Meanwhile, the Palestinian... [Lire la suite]