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Israeli Cabinet approves Hezbollah prisoner deal (AP)

Israeli Cabinet approves Hezbollah prisoner deal 
    (AP)
Israelis walk next to posters showing the portraits of Ehud Goldwasser, right, and Eldad Regev, left, who were captured in 2006 by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, and Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit, center, who was captured by Hamas-allied militants in 2006, in Tel Aviv, Sunday, June 29, 2008. Israel's government gathered Sunday to vote on a contentious prisoner swap deal with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that would see Israel get the two captured soldiers, Goldwasser and Regev, in return for a notorious Lebanese prisoner. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

AP - Israel's Cabinet overwhelmingly backed a deal Sunday with Hezbollah to swap a Lebanese prisoner convicted of a brutal 1979 attack for the bodies of two captured soldiers who were declared dead earlier in the day.
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