The Israeli-Hizballah POW-abductees-DIA deal going into effect Thursday is even more lopsided than first reported, as discovered by <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s intelligence sources from unpublished elements of the accord. Tuesday, January 27, the Israeli government published the lists of prisoners to be released two days hence for the bodies of ...

The original date of publication for prisoner swap between the Hizballah and Israel was Friday, January 30, after it had begun - or even the next day, post factum, according to <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Middle East sources. However, Israeli's POW negotiator Brig. (ret) Ilan Biran warned the German mediator, Ernest ...

The announcement Saturday, January 24, only marked the end of Part One of the agonizing, frequently-stalled negotiations for the exchange of prisoners, abductees and bodies between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah. The tireless German mediator, Ernest Uhrlau, said he had every reason to hope that the second part ...

For the past 48 hours, a maelstrom of rumor and controversy has swirledagonizingly around the undisclosed "solid intelligence" presented to the press and bereaved families as 98% proof that the three Israeli soldiers kidnapped last October are dead. The Chief Army Chaplain, charged by the chief of staff with issuing ...

In a dramatic announcement to the media, following separate interviews with the families, the head of the IDF's personnel directorate, Maj-Gen Gil Regev, declared that fresh, reliable intelligence data supported the long-standing presumption that the three soldiers abducted last October 7 on the Israel-Lebanese frontier, died during the attack ...

The Israeli government's failure to answer the agonizing questions posed by the missing men's families is explained by the extremely sensitive information recently reaching the West, and reported by <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> from its intelligence and terrorism sources: The captured Israelis are now believed to have been handed over ...