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(IsraelNN.com) The army is preparing graves for the expected return of the bodies and remains of soldiers being held by the Hizbullah terrorist organization, channel 10 television reported. Bulldozers were seen working in a military cemetery.

The Olmert government, over the objections of three Cabinet ministers, agreed this week to free Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was been embraced by Hizbullah, and other Arab terrorists in exchange for the remains of soldiers who fell in the Second Lebanon War and for kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Most officials have said the two reservists are dead, but Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has taunted relatives by refusing to divulge their fate, leaving the families with a faint hope the soldiers still are alive.