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Title: | Five soldiers returned home by Hezbollah | |||
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| Name: | Gabriel Andrews | | |||
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| The IDF notified five bereaved families June 2 that remains handed to Israel by Hizballah on June 1 had been identified as belonging to soldiers who had died in the 2006 Lebanon War and were buried. They are the four crew members of the Yasur helicopter shot down by Hizballah on August 13, 2006: Major Nissan Shalev, 36, from Kibbutz Evron; Capt. Daniel Gomez, 25, from Nahalim; Master Sgt. Ron Mashiah, 33, from Gedera. His ID tag was handed to his parents; Major Sammy Ben-Naim, 39, from Rehovot; and Sgt. Gilead Sussman, 26, from Eili, elilte unit combatant, who died in battle at Debel village. The box of tissue and bone fragments wrapped in plastic bags and tinfoil arrived without warning on June 1 after the handover to Lebanon of a Hizballah spy at the end of his six years in prison. Full identification by the national forensic lab of all the fragments is expected to take some weeks. Apparently the families could have had them 2 years ago but Olmert refused. |
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