An Israeli court extended for another six months detention orders against 21 Lebanese prisoners who are being held in the hope that they can be exchanged for missing Israeli servicemen. Among the detainees are Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, a Hezbollah leader abducted from Lebanon in 1988 by Israeli commandos, and Shi’ite guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani, who was abducted from his home in eastern Lebanon in 1994.
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