Hezbollah said mediation has not yet begun over the return of two Israeli soldiers it’s holding hostage. “We heard through the media that the U.N. secretary-general appointed a person for the prisoner negotiations, but nothing has begun yet in practice,” Sheik Naim Kassem, the Lebanese militia’s deputy chief, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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