(12 Jul 2006)
1. Van with picture of Sheik Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah and Hezbollah flags drives past tooting horn in celebration of attacks
2. Men letting off firecrackers
3. boys chanting
4. Various cars driving past with flags tooting horns
5. Fadlallah enters room
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Fadlallah, Hezbollah Member of Parliament:
"This is part of the right of the resistance to get back the detainees in the Israeli prisons. Hezbollah has declared previously that this is the year in which they will work on getting back all the detainees from the Israeli prisons.
There are thousands of Arab prisoners and no one is paying any attention to them and there are several Lebanese detainees and no one is looking at their suffering. Some of them had been detained since 30 years. This is the only way that the resistance is pursuing to free the detainees from the Israeli prisons.
7. Fax of Hezbollah statement
STORYLINE
Hezbollah said Wednesday its guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, triggering Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon and widespread clashes along the frontier that killed two Lebanese civilians.
The two Lebanese civilians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a bridge in southern Lebanon, Lebanese security
officials said.
Lebanese TV stations also said three Israeli soldiers were killed and eight wounded in the fighting.
The Israeli army confirmed casualties among the soldiers, but did not comment the reports of possible deaths.
As news came through of the Israeli soldiers being captured, people went out on to the streets of Beirut to celebrate.
Hassan Fadlallah, a Hezbollah Member of Parliament said the action had been taken to help free Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails.
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