Hezbollah Captures Three: Israel's Border Tensions Escalate
Hezbollah grabbed three Israeli soldiers from a border position and vanished into Lebanon. Israel said the men were kidnapped. Hezbollah called them prisoners of war. One soldier was wounded in the raid and likely died shortly after. The other two may have survived longer—nobody knows. Israel traded 400 prisoners for their bodies and a businessman in 2004. They'd been dead the whole time.
October 7, 2000
26 years ago
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