Detainees, Missing & Martyrs Arab Militants & Citizens in Israel

In the latest swap operation between Hezbollah and Israel, detainees, information and files and remains were received.

These remains were said to be those of martyrs, they were clearly old remains. The Israelis could not distinguish which remains belonged to whom, claiming that burying their bodies took place with some degree of chaos at the time, and so they could not be accurately numbered.

Through existing evidence, information and indications, didn't lead to the fate of many missing detainees and martyrs because tests in Lebanese Laboratories could not provide conclusive results, and to confirm conclusiveness of the results, the specimens of the some martyrs remains were send to the most respected Labs in France.

The results of the DNA tests were not conclusive, in other words we cannot conclude from the DNA tests that any of the remains belongs to Dalal Mograbi . Consequently, ger concerned relatives were informed.

Also the remains of Yehya Skaff were not among the remains, and since his martyrdom remains a hypothesis, the probabilities regarding his fate remain open. Is he alive in Israeli custody? Is Israel denying his existence? Is he missing, hence, is his fate unknown? Is he alive? Is he a martyr? Or is he a martyr whose body is missing or whose body Israel retains? These are all possible probabilities.

As far as the rest of the file is concerned, there are lists of large numbers of Lebanese and Palestinian martyrs, Lebanese martyrs who fell on Lebanese territory, we have documents and photographs some journalistic others from private sources, that confirm occupation soldiers hold their bodies and later transferred them either by helicopters or by military vehicles.

These martyrs were taken by Israeli soldiers during operations carried out by the resistance, or taken and held when later found by the Israelis.

As for the Palestinian martyrs, a large number of whom were martyred on Lebanese territory, especially during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, when their bodies were held. A number of them were martyred on Israeli territories, particularly in the north of Isreal.

Due to conditions and circumstances experienced in Southern Lebanon over 25 or 30 years of occupation, a certain number of martyrs went unreported, which is why we say that the total number of Lebanese and Palestinian martyrs nears on 350, whose bodies were in territories under Israeli control and are still retained by the Israelis or at minimum we can say they have not been received by their families.

Missing persons

Of course, the number of missing persons goes into the hundreds, with new evidence coming to the surface now and then; most of the missing persons are Lebanese, including some Palestinians, Syrians and Jordanians.

Here we speak of the missing persons Israel is responsible for, because they were either captured at Israeli check points, or the occupation forces raided their homes, arrested them, and since then they disappeared without a trace.

Or they had been detained by Israel's militias-Israel's proxy South Lebanon Army- or by former Saad Haddad, who raided their homes, detained them and held them in prisons.

There are witnesses to the effect that there were detainees in those prisons who later went missing.

We classify this type of persons as ‘missing persons', because many long years have gone by since their disappearance, and here we hold Israel fully responsible because they were kidnapped by the Israeli Army or its proxy militia of agents operating on Lebanese territories under Israeli occupation control.