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Hezbollah tells Israel missing airman is dead: report

AFP,  June, 2008  

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JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Lebanese Hezbollah militia has told Israel through the United Nations that aviator Ron Arad, who has been listed as missing in Lebanon since 1986, is dead, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

Israeli authorities had said a prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah would only go ahead once they receive information on Arad's fate.

UN hostage negotiator Gerhard Konrad delivered the message from the Shiite militia ...