Israel released convicted Hizbullah spy Nissim Nasser on Sunday morning - and in return, received a box allegedly containing body parts of Israeli soldiers.

Hizbullah spokesman Wafik Safa made the announcement on the terrorist group's Al-Manar television network, standing next to a brown box which he said contained the remains. Nassar was shown standing next to Safa.

"We today are handing over some of the remains of a number of Israeli soldiers who were killed in the July war and who the Israeli army left in Lebanon," said the Hizbullah spokesman, upon Nasser's arrival.

The Hizbullah spy was transferred by Israeli officials to representatives from the Red Cross and UNIFIL at the Rosh Hanikra crossing on the border with Lebanon earlier in the day.

Nasser was born to a Jewish woman but later converted to Islam. He immigrated to Israel in 1991 under the Law of Return, but said he eventually decided to spy for Hizbullah because he considered himself to be a "Lebanese patriot and a Muslim." He relinquished his Israeli citizenship as part of the deal to be returned to Lebanon.

The International Red Cross Association confirmed shortly after 12:00 noon that its officials had received a box containing remains of IDF soldiers who fell in battle during the 2006 Second Lebanon War...

...Zvi Regev, father of kidnapped IDF reservist Eldad Regev said he was not encouraged by the return of a box of body parts of Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah terrorists in exchange for the freedom of a live spy.

Regev, whose son Eldad was kidnapped with fellow reservist Ehud Goldwasser by Hizbullah terrorists along the northern border at the outset of the Second Lebanon War on July 12, 2006, said he had not been updated by Israeli officials on the exchange...