According to the sources, the only thing which may delay the implementation of the deal is if Israel demands to receive information on the fate of missing navigator Ron Arad .
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday morning summoned the families of kidnapped soldiers Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit for a meeting at his Tel Aviv office, ahead of the implementation of the deal with swap Hizbullah.
As part of a previous prisoner exchange deal, Israeli hostage Elhanan Tennenbaum and the bodies of three IDF troops – Benny Avraham, Omar Suweid and Adi Avitan – were returned to Israel in exchange for Lebanese "bargaining chips" Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid and Mustafa Dirani and other prisoners.
The second part of the deal was meant to include the release of Samir Kuntar ,who murdered the Haran family in Nahariya in 1979, in exchange for information on Ron Arad's fate, but such information was never received.
According to recent reports, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert planned to meet with the Arad family members and inform them that Hizbullah was no longer capable of providing information on the missing navigator's fate.