The Israel Prisons Service on Monday night published the list of 462 prisoners to be released later this week in the prisoner exchange deal with Hizbullah.
The list contains the names of 31 prisoners from Arab countries, 371 Palestinian prisoners and 60 administrative detainees, Haaretz reported.
The list was posted on the Prisons Service website, so that anyone who wants to petition the Supreme Court of Justice against a particular release can do so. However, it is considered very unlikely that the court would uphold such a petition.
On Monday, Israeli soldiers unearthed the bodies of Lebanese fighters from graves marked only with numbers.
In the meantime, Al Hayat daily reported Tuesday that Hizbullah chieftain, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had forwarded to the German mediator a list of prisoners from the occupied Golan Heights.
The report said relatives of these prisoners held intensive contacts with Nasrallah in this regard. Nasrallah's move came despite Israel's refusal to include in the deal prisoners who have "Israeli citizenship."
Meanwhile, a German emissary is in Beirut making final preparations to airlift an Israeli reserve Colonel and three dead soldiers to Frankfurt and set the expected swap of prisoners between Hizbullah and Israel in motion, according to Lebanese media Tuesday.
The envoy, whose identity has not been revealed, was allowed by Hizbullah to meet Colonel (res.) Elhanan Tanenbaum to make certain the captive is in good physical condition to endure the airplane trip to Germany.
The representative also compared DNA samples, finalizing the identification of the three Israeli soldiers who were captured by Hizbullah in a cross-border raid at the Shabaa farms on October 7, 2000, just a week before Tanenbaum was seized in Dubai. (Albawaba.com)
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