Airman believed dead, Israel told
From Times Wire Reports
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has told Israel it does not know what happened to an airman missing for more than two decades, but it believes he is dead, Israeli officials said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received the Hezbollah report on the fate of Ron Arad, missing since he was captured alive when his fighter jet went down over Lebanon in 1986.
The report was part of a deal to swap prisoners.
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