Hizballah rejects Israeli prisoner swap proposal

Lebanon’s Hizballah terrorist militia has rejected an Israeli proposal to exchange two Israeli soldiers being held by the group for hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian terrorists jailed in the Jewish state.

United Nations Middle East envoy Michael Williams said this week that the Israeli offer he conveyed to Hizballah would require the terrorists to provide a sign of life from abducted Israeli reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser in exchange for a limited release of Arab security prisoners. If it can be confirmed that Regev and Goldwasser are still alive, then Israeli will free hundreds more prisoners in return for their release.

Full Article (Israel Today)

I cannot help but thinks this confirms last week’s report that one of these soldiers is dead. I also wonder if the world will bother to notice that an alleged human rights violator is willing to release hundreds of prisoners terrorists for nothing more than the safe return of two soldiers.