Al-Deirani files a case against Israel over torture; Nasrullah threatens to revenge the killing of a Lebanese farmer
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 2/26/2004

The Lebanese Hizbullah party threatened to retaliate the Israeli forces killing of one Lebanese citizen on the border in south Lebanon on Tuesday.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hizbullah Party, Sheikh Hassan Nasrullah, said in a celebration held on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the assassination of the former secretary general of the Party, Abbas Musawi, that the party "will take the appropriate position necessitates by its humanitarian responsibilities when implications on killing the farmers are revealed."

As for the body which was returned back by the Israelis by mistake in the recent exchange operation, he said that the matter will be dealt with and the Hizbullah party will act according to its due religious and moral values.

On the other hand, Nustafa al-Deirani who was released from the Israeli jails recently said he might transfer a case of torture he had filed in Israel to courts to outside it.

In a press statement, al-Deirani did not rule out the possibility of transferring the case to international courts "if this will be useful." He had filed a case before a civilian court in Israel demanding a compensation of six million Shekel ( USD 1.5 million).

He said that the aim behind filing the case is to reveal reality, and for others not to be exposed the same harm, and that he is ready to give up part of the compensation, if he gets it, for humanitarian sides.

The Israeli army had kidnapped al-Deirani from his house in a village in the Bekaa in 1994, where he was held inside Israel without a trial until he was released within a deal between the Hizbullah and Israel under German mediation in February.

Al-Deirani said he was tortured in the first months of his detention, while the Israelis wanted to extract information from him about the Israeli pilot Ron Arad who was missing when his warplane fell over Lebanon in 1986. Al-Deirani is one of the Leaders of the "al-Muminah " resistance, split from the Shiite Amal movement. He was born in 1951, married and has five children.

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