2008-07-16

Zaidan, Kourani, Srour and Suleiman Return Home

Zaidan, Kourani, Srour and Suleiman Return Home
Batoul Wehbe Readers Number : 514

16/07/2008 As the whole country is readying to welcome its heroes who have been in Israeli jails for a long time in the Israeli swap deal with Hezbollah dubbed as “Operation Al-Redwan”, Khodor Zaidan, Maher Kourani, Mohammed Srour and Hussein Suleiman, Hezbollah fighters captured during the 2006 war will cross the occupied Palestinian border and return to Lebanon along with the senior detainee Samir Kintar.

MAHER KOURANI
Thirty-two-year-old Maher Kurani is married with a 3-year-old child, and has been a member of the Islamic Resistance since 1992. He was captured 11 kilometers west of the southern town of Yater, four days before the end of the July War (9 August 2006) as he was confronting the Israeli invasion.

KHODOR ZAIDAN
The 26-year-old resistance fighter held by Israel as an 'illegal combatant' without prisoner of war status. Zaidan was detained on August 4, 2006 while confronting Israeli invaders in the southern town of Ghandouriyeh. He's hailed in Lebanon as a 'live martyr.'

MOHAMMED SROUR
The twenty-two-year-old single Hezbollah fighter was born in Aita al- Shaab, southern Lebanon. In the beginning of August 2006, Srour was detained along with his comrade Hussein Suleiman during confrontations with the Israeli enemy.

HUSSEIN SULEIMAN
Another 23-year-old Hezbollah fighter was detained during July war in the heroic battles against the Israeli army in Aita al- Shaab at the beginning of August. Before being detained with less than one month, Suleiman got his degree in commercial communications.

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