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(IsraelNN.com) Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has denied giving information on kidnapped IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser to French officials.  In an interview on Monday with Al-Jazeera television, Nasrallah said “The only person who gives information about the fate of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers is me.”  He added that he would not give such information “for free.”

Regev and Goldwasser were kidnapped over one year ago.  Their kidnapping, along with rocket attacks on Israeli cities, sparked the Second Lebanon War.  French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said recently that he believes the two are alive, but was unable to give details.