Israel holds Nasrallah, the grocer

Hassan Nasrallah was briefly in Israel's hands, along with three members of his family and a neighbour. Unfortunately for the embarrassed Israelis, he was the local green grocer - not the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah group. Leah Tzemel, the Israeli lawyer who obtained their release on Monday, said Israel had snatched the four Nasrallahs and their neighbour on August 1 in a commando raid in the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon. The army apparently believed he was related to Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and could be used to pressure the leader...

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