[18 July 2008]

BEIRUT, July 18 (Saba)- Yemen's Embassy in Lebanon said on Friday the Lebanese authorities have data of two bodies of Yemeni citizens were handed over recently by Israel within a prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah.

A source in the embassy was quoted by the independent newsyemen.net as saying that the photo and the name of another body of a Yemeni is still under investigation.

The source affirmed that head of Yemeni-Lebanese Brotherhood Association Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh is going to receive the bodies of Yemeni citizens from Hezbollah.

It is noteworthy that Yemenis affiliated to Yemen Socialist Party had participated in the military operations of Lebanese factions against Israel until the mid-seventies.

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