Relatives of kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are skeptical about media reports that Israel and Hizbullah are approaching completion of an agreement to exchange Arab terrorists for the two soldiers, whose fate is unknown. Israel has assumed that they were seriously wounded after they were abducted in the July 2006 cross-border raid that touched off the Second Lebanon War.
Shlomo Goldwasser, father of Ehud, said he does not trust Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who said Monday night that the soldiers soon will be freed, although he did indicate if they are alive. "I don't believe Nasrallah. If the man truly cares about Samir Kuntar and the other prisoners, he would at least allow Red Cross representatives to visit the kidnapped soldiers in Lebanon," he said. Kuntar is a terrorist murderer who is to be freed by Israel in the rumored deal.
Other relatives of the two reservists said they have not been updated about the developments.