The Jewish Chronicle
On this day: Goldwasser and Regev captured
July 12 2006: Two more Israeli MIAs
July 12, 2011 08:49
July 12 2006: Two more Israeli MIAs
July 12, 2011 08:49As the Second Lebanon War went on, less and less appeared in the newspapers about the two men whose kidnapping led to the conflict.
Eldad Regev was 25 when he was captured during an attack on their patrol at the Israel-Lebanon border in 2006, Ehud Goldwasser, at 30, was older and married.
Long after the fighting was stopped, the fates of the two young soldiers remained unconfirmed. It took more than two years for Israel to discover they had died and to recover their bodies; a prisoner swap was agreed even before Israel knew whether they were alive or dead.
Their bodies were finally returned in July 2008 in return for 199 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters and four captured Hizbollah men as well as a convicted murderer Samir Kuntar, who killed three Israelis in 1979, including a four-year-old-girl. He was also responsible for the death of a two-year-old baby.
