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(IsraelNN.com) The first stage of the prisoner deal with Hizbullah, involving the return of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, and the release of terrorist Samir Kuntar along with three other Lebanese prisoners will take place Thursday, Bethlehem based website Maan reported.

According to the report: "Stage two will begin six days after the completion of stage one and will see the delivery of the corpses of Dalal Al-Mughrabi and others to their families for burial. Stage three will be completed a few days later and see the release of 199 bodies from Israeli morgues. One hundred and fifty of the corpses are those of Palestinian fighters."