Aluf Benn, Yoav Stern, and Baruch Kra (Ha'aretz) - The German government has promised to free two Lebanese and an Iranian currently serving life sentences in Germany in exchange for the missing Israeli navigator Ron Arad or his body. Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said, Hizballah believes Arad is in Lebanon, and not in Iran, as Israel believes. The Palestinians to be released, according to criteria set by the cabinet, are prisoners with less than two years still to serve and without "blood on their hands."
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