Israel won't declare troops dead

Zionist regime's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied reports that he planned to declare two Zionists' soldiers detained by the Lebanese Hezbollah in 2006 were dead.

The German weekly Der Spiegel reported on its web site that the prime minister plans to designate military reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev as 'fallen soldiers'.

"I will continue to act on the basis they are alive as long as we don't get any other information," Olmert said on Sunday.

The two troopers were seized by Hezbollah members on July 12, 2006.