Ali Hassan Khalil says that Zionist captives of 2006 were killed in a raid by Zionist military

Lebanese Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, who is Speaker Nabih Berri’s top aide, has unveiled that an Israeli raid killed two soldiers who were taken captive by Hezbollah fighters in a deadly cross border attack in July 2006.

In his memoirs of the 2006 summer war between Israeli war machine and Lebanon published by As-Safir daily, Khalil said that Hezbollah official Hussein Khalil informed him about the death of the two soldiers in “one of the biggest secrets” of the conflict.

“Israeli bombardment in the past few days has led to the killing of the two Israeli captives,” the Shiite party official told Berri’s aide.

He stressed that Hezbollah members “made all efforts under danger to preserve the bodies and transport them.”
Ali Hassan Khalil wrote that Hezbollah’s Khalil quipped saying Israel had killed the captives that it declared war to free them.

“As a resistance, we will continue the battle of negotiations as if nothing has happened.”

Later on Wednesday, the Zionist military aid firmly rejected Khalil’s statements, saying: "The remarks made by the representative of the Hezbollah are blatant fabrications and part of a psychological warfare attempt.”

The war began when Hezbollah Mujahedeen captured the two soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, in the Lebanese border town of Khallat-Wardeh on July 12, 2006, with the aim of exchanging them for Lebanese and Arab prisoners held in the Occupied Territories.

Though Zionist officials had suspected Goldwasser and Regev were dead, the sight of the coffins was the first confirmation of their fate.