Release of Remains
As part of the 2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap Mughrabi's remains were supposed to be exhumed and returned to Lebanon. Dalal was buried in a "cemetery for enemy dead" but the IDF apparently could not locate the body due to underground currents moving the coffins in the cemetery. Dalal's sister said to Ma'an News Agency that the family received a coffin that contained "just dirt and stones".
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