printThey don’t exist. Other than hardened criminals—as opposed to terrorists, which many far-gone libertarians, Buchanantites, and leftists consider “resistance fighterâ€?—there aren’t any Arab-Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails.
If you don’t believe me, take the word of The New York Review of Books, which is most definitely on the hard-left:
Many in the Muslim and Arab worlds are under the impression that Israel holds dozens of Lebanese ‘hostages.’ It certainly used to, but nearly all were released in previous exchanges. Before the fighting, Israel held precisely two known Lebanese prisoners in Israel, along with a possible third, a fisherman who disappeared at sea and whom Hezbollah asserts is a captive. One of the prisoners, Samir Kuntar, is serving multiple life sentences for murdering a father and his daughter back in 1979, before Hezbollah’s founding, when he took part in a raid by Palestinian guerrillas. The other is an Israeli citizen of Lebanese origin, sentenced as a Hezbollah spy. In other words, these ‘hostages’ are, under international law, not prisoners of war but simple criminals.