There have been problems identifying some of the remains

The bodies arrived on Monday in Shatila, a southern district of Beirut, after more than 190 bodies were handed over by Israel as part of a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah last week.

In return, Hezbollah returned the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, two Israeli reservists captured during a cross-border raid that sparked the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.

Israel released five prisoners in the exchange, Samir Kuntar and four Hezbollah fighters captured during the 2006 fighting.

Several bodies delivered in the prisoner swap were placed in the same casket, making it difficult for families to identify the bones of their dead relatives.

Amin reported that the condition of the bodies had been causing a lot of resentment among the families.

In Damascus, the Syrian capital, 90 other bodies will be delivered to families living in refugee camps there.

The bodies are of fighters from a number of nationalities, including Kuwaitis, Moroccans, Tunisians and Libyans who had joined the ranks of Palestinian and Lebanese national movements in the 1970s to protest against Israeli occupation in Palestine.

All were killed in combat while confronting the Israeli army.

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