Lebanon: Goldwasser, Regev killed by Israeli bombing

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Memoirs by Lebanon's Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil claim IDF bombing near Israel-Lebanon border killed Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in 2006. IDF: Claims absurd, psychological warfare

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4131423,00.html

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"Two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah in 2006 sparked a 34-day war and whose bodies were returned to Israel two years later were killed by Israeli bombardment, a Lebanese minister said on Wednesday.

Hezbollah handed over the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a prisoner exchange but never said how they died. Israeli officials said they were badly wounded when they were captured by the Shiite militant group in a cross-border raid.

Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, publishing his memoirs of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon's al-Safir newspaper, quoted a Hezbollah official as saying the two Israelis were killed by Israeli bombing.

"There is another subject which only a very few brothers know about, and which no one other than us will know about later," he quoted Hussein al-Khalil as saying on August 3, 2006, roughly half-way through the conflict. "An Israeli bombardment in recent days led to the death of the two Israeli prisoners."

He said the soldiers' captors had taken every precaution to avoid them being killed "but the expansion (of the area) of the bombardment and the use of big rockets... led to this."

"...It's ironic, Israel killed the prisoners on whose behalf it declared war. From our part, we will continue the battle of negotiations as if nothing had happened," the minister quoted Hussein al-Khalil as saying."