Hezbollah has demanded the release of 100 prisoners held by Israel in exchange for an Israeli businessman, a German newspaper reported. The paper quoted German security officials involved in mediating the swap as saying Hezbollah demanded that West Bank militia leader Marwan Barghouti be among the prisoners released in exchange for Elhanan Tannenbaum.
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