A prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hezbollah is extremely close now that progress has been made in the mediation efforts of a German intelligence official, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Ahbar reported Monday, quoting diplomatic sources in New York.
The sources were quoted as saying that they did not rule out the possibility that a deal would go into effect by tomorrow or Sunday.
Meanwhile, the London-based newspaper A-Sharq al-Awsat quoted senior Israeli government officials as saying that a prisoner exchange of captured IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser for Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar would be carried out in the next few days.
Hezbollah neither confirmed nor denied the ...