Hezbollah wants Israel to free 19 Lebanese prisoners in return for information on the three Israeli soldiers and reserve colonel the Shi’ite group recently kidnapped. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader, told Saudi Arabia’s al- Watan newspaper that there has been no serious effort to negotiate the Israelis’ release.
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