Hizbullah hands over bodies to Palestinian factions; Mughrabi not yet identified

Date: 21 / 07 / 2008 Time: 13:48
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Hizbullah continued their transfer of bodies received from Israel as part of the prisoner swap, to the Palestinian factions the fighters had been affiliated with on Monday.

Freed Lebanese prisoner Samir Al-Quntar as well as representatives of several Palestinian factions were present for the transfer.

Hizbullah's TV station Al-Manar stated that 157 corpses were being handed over to Palestinians. They also reported that 28 of the corpses that they received have not yet been unidentified. The report said that Hizbullah was waiting for the results of DNA tests that were being compared to samples taken from family members of the deceased.

Amongst the unidentified corpses are those of Dalal Al-Mughrabi and her group. It seems that the bodies were unidentified because they were burried in a mass grave for a number of years. The bodies were returned to factions with two name tags.

Amongst the bodies which Hizbullah received from Israel were 24 Lebanese fighters, 91 Palestinians, 37 Syrians and 8 Tunisians as well as fighters from other Arab countries.

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