The Hizbollah did not start the war.The Israelis have made dozens of "incursions " into the Lebanon to take hostages,assasinate and obtain information during the past few years.

Israel was holding hundreds of Lebanese prisoners plus would not reveal the whereabouts of 170000 mines which civilians were stepping on on the hillsides and fields of southern Lebanon.

However,the timing of the capture of the two Israeli soldiers was linked to the Israeli attack on Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more wounded by heavy shell and tank fire during the past few months.
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