Captured soldiers' families call for a meeting with the PM
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The families of kidnapped soldiers...called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to meet them...in the wake of the prime minister's earlier announcement that Israel's eight-week-old air and sea blockade of Lebanon would end at 6 pm Thursday.
Army Radio reported that the families complained that Olmert had made a promise to them that the blockade would not be lifted before the kidnappers revealed some signs of life of the captured troops.
The families have repeatedly expressed fears that the kidnappers would attempt to smuggle the soldiers out of Lebanon.
Olmert's decision came following heavy international pressure to lift the closure, and was in direct opposition to an IDF recommendation to keep the siege in place.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the decision to lift the closure was made following a request by the United States.
[Jerusalem Post]
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