He is the only Israeli prisoner of war in Lebanon still presumed to be alive.

Release some of the foreign hostages and the Israeli prisoners and the sheik goes home.

Israeli prisoners are either released or transferred to Prison Four.

If there were Israeli prisoners in there, he knew they would understand.

"There will be no freedom for the Israeli prisoner without an exchange involving Palestinian detainees."

He said that during one of his terms as an Israeli prisoner, he and other inmates demanded chairs and tables.

He called the Palestinians "prisoners of war" and said that "they are human beings with families, just like the Israeli prisoner is a human being."

Hundreds of Israeli political prisoners are not rotting in Palestinian jails.

Understanding the exchange of a single Israeli prisoner for 1,027 Palestinians.

The broadcast hinted that one of the aims of the operation was to win the freedom of the Israeli prisoners.