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Lebanese prisoners in Israel

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There are currently four known Lebanese citizens in Israeli prisons. Hezbollah has demanded the release of these prisoners as as condition for releasing Israeli reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, captured in the raid which sparked the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Samir Kuntar is serving four life sentences for murder for an attack on a civilian apartment block in Nahariya in 1979.

Nissim Nasser was arrested in 2002 for spying for Hezbollah.

Yehia Skaff is described by Hezbollah as a "fighter".

The other prisoner is Ali Faratan.

Hezbollah initially demanded the release of Kuntar, Nasser, and Skaff at the time of the 2004 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner exchange, but Israel refused.

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