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Occupied Jerusalem: Israel agreed on Sunday to free a Lebanese, Samir Kantar, convicted of an attack in 1979, along with prisoners and the bodies of Hezbollah fighters, in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.
Israel has carried out unbalanced prisoner swaps in the past. Here are details of some of those exchanges:
November 1983: Israel swaps 4,600 Palestinian and Lebanese captives for six Israeli soldiers abducted September. 4, 1982, from their forward post in Lebanon.
May 1985: Three Israeli soldiers captured in Lebanon in 1982 are traded for 1,150 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
1986: An Israeli warplane is shot down in south Lebanon, and navigator Ron Arad is captured by Shiite fighters. He is presumed dead.
1989: Israel abducts Hezbollah cleric Shaikh Abdul Karim Obaid, hoping to trade him for information about Arad.
September 1991: Israel trades 51 prisoners for proof one of its soldiers held in Lebanon is dead.
1994: Israeli troops abduct Lebanese fighter leader Mustafa Dirani, hoping to use him to get information about Arad.
2000: Israeli troops withdraw from the buffer zone, ending 18 years of occupation. In a cross-border attack in October, Hezbollah captures three Israeli soldiers, later disclosed to be dead. In a separate incident, the group kidnaps an Israeli businessman.
January 2004: Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon exchange an Israeli civilian and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers for 436 Arab prisoners and the bodies of 59 Lebanese fighters.
2006: On July 12, Hezbollah kidnaps two Israeli soldiers in cross-border raid, sparking 33-day war that kills 159 Israelis, including 40 civilians, and more than 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians. War ends with a UN.-brokered cease-fire, bringing thousands of international peacekeeping troops to police Israeli-Lebanese border.
2008: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares two captive soldiers dead, Cabinet approves a deal to exchange Kantar for the bodies of the two soldiers and information on Arad.
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