92:, Israel took 4,338 Egyptian soldiers and 899 civilians, 553 Jordanian soldiers and 366 civilians, and 367 Syrian soldiers and 205 civilians captive, while 15 Israeli soldiers and the bodies of two more fell into Arab captivity. All of them were released following the war. Israeli spies imprisoned in Egypt since the 1950s, two Israeli naval commanders captured shortly after the war, and the body of an Israeli soldier who was abducted a year before the war and subsequently died in prison were also released.
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celebration in Beirut where he accused Israel of dragging its feet in the prisoner exchange negotiations. He also disclosed that the organization, apart from two captive soldiers, were also holding the partial remains of several other soldiers killed in the war. He claimed that the IDF had "lied" to
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67:, committed suicide while in captivity after being falsely informed by his captors that his fellow soldiers had been killed. The four surviving POWs and Ilan's body were returned on March 29, 1956, in exchange for 40 Syrian soldiers captured during various Israeli military operations.
430:, which resulted in the deaths of four Israelis, including two small children. According to eyewitness accounts, Kuntar bludgeoned a four-year-old girl to death. In exchange Hezbollah released the bodies of two Israeli soldiers (Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev) captured in a
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148:, Egypt and Syria took 293 Israeli prisoners, while Israel captured 8,372 Egyptians, 392 Syrians, 13 Iraqis, and 6 Moroccans. All these prisoners were exchanged during November 15–22, 1973. During the exchange, both sides also swapped prisoners from the
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258:and 65 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.
583:[Uri Ilan – Another message in notes].
474:were made between Israel and Hamas to exchange
577:Moses Rom; Zev H. Ehrlich (January 12, 2005).
442:On October 18, 2011, captured IDF tank gunner
1055:Anshel Pfeffer; Jack Khoury (July 14, 2008).
771:"Lebanese Celebrate Return Of Five Prisoners"
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936:"Nasrallah reopens bereaved family's wounds"
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189:During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (the
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48:The first exchanges took place after the
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964:"Ministers call to kill Nasrallah"
934:Yuval Azoulay (January 22, 2008).
862:Shahdi al-Kashif (July 13, 2008).
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911:Yara Bayoumy (January 19, 2008).
1135:Lists of prisoners and detainees
1011:Hanan Greenberg (June 3, 2008).
962:Herb Keinon (January 20, 2008).
741:"עסקת ג'יבריל (The Jibril deal)"
354:held by Hezbollah, kidnapped in
55:On December 8, 1954, a five-man
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988:Duraid Al Baik (June 1, 2008).
743:. Yedioth Ahronoth Encyclopedia
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804:Timeline: Past prisoner swaps
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