“Israel” prolongs detention of Hizbullah leaders  
“An “Israeli” court decided on Monday to extend the detention by six months of two leaders of the Lebanese Hizbullah resistance movement held for years in “Israeli” jails. The court made the ruling against Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid and Mustapha Dirani on the recommendations of Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, judicial officials said. Obeid was kidnapped by “Israeli” commandos in 1989 while Dirani was seized in a similar operation in 1994. About 150 Lebanese have been held for several years without charge or trial in prisons in “Israel” and its occupied zone in south Lebanon. Hizbullah spearheads resistance attacks against “Israel” and the latter's allied militia aimed at ousting it from a zone they occupy in southern Lebanon.”

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