# Condition of kidnapped Israeli soldiers

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condition-of-kidnapped-israeli-soldiers/368856 "2006-08-15T18:13:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Placid\_Liver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@Placid\_Liver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Placid_Liver)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condition-of-kidnapped-israeli-soldiers/368856/1 "2006-08-15T18:13:58Z")

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I can’t seem to find any word of what happened to the soldiers kidnapped that started off the war. Are they still presumed alive?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condition-of-kidnapped-israeli-soldiers/368856/2 "2006-08-15T18:27:06Z")

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A dammned good question.

Anybody?

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condition-of-kidnapped-israeli-soldiers/368856/3 "2006-08-15T18:50:03Z")

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The Lebanon ones at least are presumed alive. There was a little bit about them on the radio news this morning. Publically, Israel has said they will not do any sort of swap for them. That said, they have a dozen or so Hezbollah POWs and a few Hezbollah dead bodies that could be quietly released.

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condition-of-kidnapped-israeli-soldiers/368856/4 "2006-08-15T19:28:24Z")

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I just always figured they were dead. Israel was bombing anything that so much as smelled like Hezbollah, and I assumed H would have kept the prisoners in one of their offices or bunkers somwhere, many of which are now rubble. Do the math.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condition-of-kidnapped-israeli-soldiers/368856/5 "2006-08-16T08:39:54Z")

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[QUOTE=CynicalGabe]  
I just always figured they were dead. Israel was bombing anything that so much as smelled like Hezbollah, and I assumed H would have kept the prisoners in one of their offices or bunkers somwhere, many of which are now rubble. Do the math.  
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Nah. Odds are they smuggled them out of the country as fast as possible, probably on the very day they were kidnapped. The assumption here is that they’re in Iran.