Hezbollah erects large photograph of two kidnapped IDF soldiers

Hezbollah erecting photographs of the two kidnapped soldiers. (AP)

April 26, 2007

Hezbollah militants erected a large photograph on Thursday of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in an area along Lebanon's border with Israel.

Lebanese security sources said the three-by-five meter photograph showing Goldwasser and Regev had been put up in Aita Al-Shaab, near where they were seized on July 12, 2006.

Hezbollah supporters looked on, chanting anti-Israel slogans, while the poster bearing the slogan "for the sake of our detainees" and a yellow Hezbollah flag, was being erected.

A United Nations peacekeeping patrol monitored the event in the area, which is heavily monitored by IDF patrols across the border.

Hezbollah is demanding the release of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails in exchange for the two men, whose kidnapping sparked the Second Lebanon war.

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