VIDEO - Thursday morning, Lebanese television station LBC broadcasted another segment of a video showing captured Israel Air Force Ron Arad. In the segment, Ron Arad is heard saying, in English, "I am a soldier in the Israel army." In the video, Arad added additional details about his life, which were not yet broadcasted.
At the beginning of the week, LBC had promised to air the video in which the kidnapped navigator is seen, and heart. The video promo, which was broadcasted on Monday, showed the 1986 battle itself, the rescue helicopter, and Ron Arad himself sitting and speaking. It is unclear what information the entire film contains.
In an additional promo, aired along with the Ron Arad footage Thursday morning, the station also broadcasted pictures of other kidnappings, those in October 2000 of infantry soldiers Adi Avitan, Omer Soued and Binyamin Avraham and said it would air a video documenting the kidnapping of the three soldiers on Mount Dov in 2000.
The video, "on the screen for the first time", is an LBC exclusive. The Lebanese station is associated with Christian factions in the country. Ynet was informed that the video was transferred to the station by a Shiite party that, in the past, was closely linked to Hizbullah,
yetit seems unlikely that such a party would have transferred the video to a Christian-affiliated station.
Sources close to the Arad family told Ynet that the family confirmed the authenticity of the pictures, but does not know what the implications mean. Chen Arad, the navigator's brother, and a representative from the Born to Freedom Foundation said that, prior to Israeli broadcasts on the topic, the family had received no information from the foundation regarding the new video.