After six months in Hezbollah hands, Ahmed Daif, an Israeli-Arab citizen, will be returned to Israel after he was allegedly swept by currents into Lebanese territorial waters last year. Hezbollah captured Daif and has held him on suspicions of being an Israeli spy. The Red Cross will hand over Daif, 33, to Israeli hands at the Rosh Hanikra crossing on the Lebanese border on Thursday. Nahad Daif, his mother, who found out her son was in custody in Lebanon by chance after watching Hezbollahs TV network, Al Manar, said Wednesday that she will not believe he is free until she sees him with her own two eyes and can touch him. Im worried that Israeli security forces will now apprehend and interrogate him and that much time will pass before we can see him. My son is a good boy who was never a spy and has no connection to the allegations against him in Lebanon, she said. Meanwhile, the Egyptian news outlet Al-Ahram reported Wednesday that a senior Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo to negotiate the release of Israeli citizen Ouda Tarabin, a resident of the Bedouin town of Rahat in southern Israel. Tarabin has been charged with spying for Israel and has been held in Egypt since 2000. According to Al-Ahram, Tarabin will likely be released in exchange for 63 prisoners in Israeli jails, some of whom are Egyptian nationals. The Al-Ahram report added that the senior Israeli officials landed in Cairo in a private jet, and were accompanied by a senior official from Egypts Foreign Ministry.
