On August 11, 2006 the UN Security Council passed resolution 1701 that reads in its third paragraph:
“Emphasizing the need for an end of violence, but at the same time emphasizing the need to address urgently the causes that have given rise to the current crisis, including the unconditional release of the abducted Israeli soldiers.”
This sounds pretty clear: “unconditional release”. Here is a picture of one of the abducted soldiers:
So the question is have the Israeli soldiers been released?
There is an old saying that “you can’t make a good deal with bad people.” And the opposite is also true: if you don’t honor deals you are a bad person.