An exchange of prisoners between Israel and the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah is under way on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Israel is returning the bodies of 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters.
Earlier, Red Cross vehicles carrying two coffins said to contain the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured in 2006 crossed from Lebanon into Israel.
Israel is carrying out DNA tests on the bodies. The capture of the two men in a cross-border raid sparked a 33-day war.
 The prisoners, including Samir Qantar (third left), left the jail before dawn |
Israel is carrying out DNA tests to confirm the identity of the two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, before handing over five Hezbollah prisoners it holds.
United Nations officials, who have carried out their own tests, have confirmed that the remains are those of the two soldiers.
The soldiers' relatives broke down in tears as they saw the images of Hezbollah handing over the two coffins.
Before the swap, it was unclear whether the two soldiers were alive or dead.
Some in Israel had held out hope that they might still be alive, but the images of two plain black coffins being delivered to the border told the soldiers' family what they had long suspected, says the BBC's Wyre Davies on the Israel-Lebanon border.
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