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| | CAMES, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, arab documents, The Capture of Israeli Soldiers by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | In a complicated military operation on October 7, 2000, Hizbullah commandos captured three Israeli soldiers in the disputed territory of Shebaa Farms, on the Syrian/Lebanese border, which Israel occupies despite Lebanon’s contention that the farms are Lebanese territory. |
 | | While early press reports suggested that Tannenbaum was kidnapped in Switzerland and taken to Beirut, Hizbullah maintains that their elaborate covert operation lured Tannenbaum, whom Hizbullah claims is a Mossad agent, to Beirut under the pretense of recruiting a double agent to infiltrate the group. |
 | | Hizbullah’s stated objective in both operations is to trade the Israeli soldiers for 19 Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails, some of whom were captured from south Lebanon by Israeli commandos in similar operations. |
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