ISRAEL CAPTURES ONE OF SOLDIER'S KIDNAPPERS

IDF: Captive involved in kidnapping (JPOST)

One of the Hizbullah captives held by the IDF was involved in planning and perpetrating the kidnapping of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, head of IDF intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told cabinet ministers on Sunday during the weekly cabinet session. According to Yadlin, the captive was a mid-level operative in the Hizbullah hierarchy. Few reports have since generated about the fate of the kidnapped troops. Last week, special forces conducted a raid in Baalbek following information that the kidnapped soldiers were treated in a hospital in the area. The battle lasted for several hours, following which the elite force of close to 200 soldiers, returned to Israel carrying loads of intelligence information and without any casualties. At least 10 Hizbullah gunmen were killed.