Hezbollah Militants Charged in Kidnapping
Israeli prosecutors indicted three Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas on charges that include helping to carry out a deadly operation to snatch two soldiers.
The three men, all in their 20s, were also charged with murder, attempted murder and belonging to a terrorist group.
The trial opened in Nazareth District Court.
Officials said Israeli forces captured Mahmoud Ali Suleiman, Mohammed Srur and Maher Qurani in southern Lebanon during the recent war, launched after Hezbollah seized the two soldiers and killed eight others in a July 12 ambush.
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