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The sources, meanwhile, did not reveal what the "anatomical item" was or who exactly provided it, but said that its transfer was linked to the release of five Hezbollah prisoners by Israel on Dec. 26. It is known that Hezbollah is interested in getting back its prisoners currently in Israeli prisons and in the Al-Khayam Prison in south Lebanon.

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general, recently declared that Arad is neither in Iran nor Syria and that he is being held by an "unknown organization." Nasrallah added he would work to help find Arad.