Hezbollah releases video of 2006 kidnapping of IDF soldiers

Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser July 14, 2006 (AP)

Source: Jerusalem Online


Six years after the kidnapping of IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, Hezbollah has released video documenting the attack on the soldiers’ convoy on the border with Lebanon. The Hezbollah terrorists can be seen crossing the border fence with ease. The Hummer in which Regev and Goldwasser were driving is ambushed from a number of different directions. The Hezbollah cell approaches the Hummer to kidnap the IDF soldiers. However, the video ends before we are able to see whether or not the soldiers were taken out of the vehicle alive. Karnit Goldwasser, widow of Udi, said that she hopes that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah meets the same fate as Osama Bin Laden. One of the soldiers who survived the attack and watched the videos said he was shocked at the ease with which a large number of Hezbollah guerillas were able to cross the border and carry out the attack.


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