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Middle East prisoner swap: 'I think another flare up is unlikely'

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Middle East correspondent Rory McCarthy reports on the exchange between Israel and Hizbullah

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Five Lebanese prisoners are swapped for the bodies of two Israeli solders.

Israeli prison guards escort the Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar as he is released from the Hadarim prison in preparation for his handover to Hizbullah as part of a prisoner exchange
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