Body of Palestinian heroine returned

The body of a Palestinian woman who led a martydom operation against the Zionist regime in a bus in the occupied Palestine 30 years ago was among the bodies handed over in a prisoner swap on Wednesday.

The International Committee for the Red Cross, which is supervising the exchange, handed over to the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement of Hezbollah the remains of eight fighters transferred from occupied lands as part of the exchange.

"As a Palestinian, Dalal wanted to be buried in Palestine," her younger brother Shadi, 31, said.

"It was her most cherished wish and it came true for a period of time," he said the day before her remains were to return to Lebanon.

"We are happy to finally be able to touch her coffin," he said adding that she will be buried in Beirut's martyrs cemetery "until the day she can return to Palestine."

Moghrabi was born in 1958 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh in Beirut and was a member of Fatah, the main faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).

In all, the Zionist regime is handing over the remains of 199 Palestinian and Lebanese fighters and the five remaining Lebanese captives in its custody, including Samir Kantar.

In return, Hezbollah has handed over coffins containing of two Zionist soldiers who took part in the regime's imposed war against innocent Lebanese in July 2006.