FACTBOX: Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap

(Reuters) - Israel's cabinet gave final approval on Tuesday for a prisoner swap with Lebanon's Hezbollah group, clearing the way for the exchange to get under way as planned on Wednesday, government officials said.

Here are some details:

ISRAELI SOLDIERS:

-- In return for releasing five men, Israel will recover two of its soldiers, captured in a 2006 cross-border raid that triggered the 34-day war with the Iranian-backed group. Israel then entered indirect talks to retrieve them.

-- Eldad Regev from the town of Kiryat Motskin near the coastal city of Haifa, and Ehud Goldwasser from the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, are both military reservists. They were patrolling Israel's northern border in two armored jeeps ambushed by Hezbollah guerrillas on July 12, 2006.

-- Relatives of one of the two captive soldiers said in June an Israeli negotiator had told them a German-mediated prisoner swap was coming together. Their families urged Hezbollah to show proof the two were still alive.

LEBANESE PRISONERS IN ISRAEL:

-- Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in June that Lebanese prisoners would come home soon. He did not say if the two Israelis were dead or alive. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said they were probably dead.

-- Topping the list was Samir Qantar, the longest-held Lebanese detainee. He was serving a life sentence for a deadly 1979 raid on northern Israel by a Palestinian guerrilla group.

-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had described Qantar as the last bargaining chip for word on the fate of Israeli airman Ron Arad, who disappeared after bailing out during a bombing run on Lebanon in 1986.

-- The other four Lebanese prisoners, Maher Qorani, Mohammad Srour, Hussein Suleiman and Khodr Zeidan were transferred from Ashmoret prison, near the coastal city of Netanya, where they have been held since their capture in the 2006 Lebanon war.

-- Under the deal, Israel would also hand over the bodies of 200 Arabs killed while infiltrating Israel, and Hezbollah will return the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in south Lebanon in 2006.

PREVIOUS SWAP:

-- In 2004, Hezbollah and Israel exchanged the bodies of three Israeli soldiers captured in 2000 and a kidnapped Israeli businessman for 400 Palestinian and 23 Lebanese and other Arab prisoners in a German-brokered deal.