NAQURA  - Hezbollah on Wednesday handed over black coffins it said contained the remains of two Israeli soldiers seized two years ago, in a prisoner swap greeted with triumph in Lebanon but anguish in Israel. The bodies were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross for DNA tests to confirm their identities. The ICRC said it has handed to Hezbollah the bodies of eight fighters, including a woman Palestinian regarded by Arabs as a resistance heroine, as part of the next phase of the exchange, which also involves the release of a Lebanese who is the longest serving Arab prisoner in Israel. Five Lebanese prisoners freed by the Israeli authorities arrived in Lebanon Wednesday, hours after Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized by its guerrillas two years ago. Among those freed in a prisoner swap greeted with triumph in Lebanon but anguish in Israel was Samir Kantar, who was sentenced to five life terms for a 1979 triple murder, including of a child. The prisoners were brought across the border in a convoy of four International Committee of the Red Cross vehicles and were greeted by Hezbollah's chief prisoner swap negotiator, Wafiq Safa. Kantar's mother, Siham Kantar, 71, was shown on television embracing the freed man's brother and crying tears of joy as she awaited him at Beirut airport where all five prisoners are expected to be flown later. The five were released in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, captured on July 12, 2006. The fate of the two soldiers was not known until their bodies were returned to Israel Wednesday morning. "Today we hand over Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev," Hezbollah's Safa said at the Naqura border crossing between Lebanon and Israel as men placed two black coffins on the ground amid a crowd of onlookers. The mood in Israel had been sombre as it waited to learn the fate of Goldwasser and Regev, whose capture in a deadly cross-border raid in July 2006 triggered a devastating 34-day war in Lebanon. "Both soldiers have been identified," an army spokeswoman told AFP after forensic tests on the remains. Goldwasser's family broke down in cries of despair when they saw the footage of Hezbollah handing over the caskets, while neighbours gathered around the Regev home, lighting candles and quietly shedding tears. Aside from Kantar, who was sentenced to five life terms for the murders that shocked Israel to the core, four Hezbollah fighters captured in the July-August 2006 war which killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon and 160 in Israel were also freed. The four, Khaled Zidan, Maher Kurani, Mohammed Sarur and Hussein Suleiman - along with Kantar - were the last remaining Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. Israel was also to transfer to Lebanon the remains of 199 Palestinian and Hezbollah fighters exhumed over the past week. Among the first bodies handed over was Dalal al-Moghrabi, who led a bloody commando attack in 1978 that Israelis describe as the "Coastal Road Massacre." She was killed in a battle with Israeli forces after her group blew up a bus they had hijacked on the road between Tel Aviv and Haifa, killing 36 people.