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Beirut : Hezbollah leader's claim that the group had the remains of Israeli soldiers dominated Israeli media on Sunday.
And Israeli military officials, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, confirmed that Hezbollah has some body parts of Israeli soldiers from the 2006 war.
Israel will not negotiate with Shaikh Nasrallah over the matter, they said. The last time the Jewish state traded body parts with Hezbollah was in 1998, when it gave back Nasrallah's son's body.
The Hezbollah leader struck a mocking tone in his speech on Saturday, telling Israelis: "Your army left behind the remains of soldiers in our villages and fields." "They [Israeli army] were so weak on the field that they left behind remains not of one, two or three but a large number of your soldiers," he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's centrist Kadima party said, "Nasrallah has crossed all possible boundaries of inhumanity."
"We should not panic from his words and we should not negotiate with him. We should take him out," he told reporters.
Housing Minister Zeev Boim echoed the sentiment and also called for the assassination of Nasrallah.
On Sunday, the Israeli daily Haaretz quoted military officials as saying they believed "the remains of about ten soldiers were involved."
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