✍Limited exchange: Gabriel Dawit's body for a prisoner and two bodies

On 15 October 2007 Hezbollah handed over through the Red Cross the body of the Israeli Gabriel Dawit, of Ethiopian origin, who had drowned off Naqoura in 2005, with information on a specific file, in exchange for the release of the prisoner Hassan Aqil, one of five captured in the July war, and the handover of the bodies of two of the party's fighters, among them Mohammed Youssef Asseily; the deal went through the mediation of the UN envoy, and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the next day that it was a partial step and that negotiations would resume "in days", paving the way for the Kuntar deal of 2008.