Yoram and Ronen Shachar have joined the Almagor Terror Victims Association in a petition asking the High Court of Justice to stop the government from freeing Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar in the prisoner swap with Hizbullah.

Israeli intelligence officials estimate that the Israeli soldiers whose return Israel is demanding are dead. Much public criticism has been voiced over the surrender to Hizbullah in releasing live terrorists for what are apparently dead Prisoners of War (POWs).

The petition was filed in the Jerusalem courtroom on Monday morning, with the two brothers joined by Meir Indor of the Almagor group. Eliyahu Shachar, a police officer, was murdered by Kuntar during the 1979 terror attack he led on Nahariya.

Kuntar brutally killed Danny Haran and then crushed the skull of his 4-year-old daughter Eynat with his rifle butt. The little girl’s younger sister also suffocated to death as she hid with her mother in another part of the house.

“We will regret releasing Kuntar,” asserted Yoram Shachar. “I will do everything in my power to delay the deal, and if possible, even bring it to revocation.” The petitioners maintain that the exchange endangers future Israeli soldiers, as the terrorists will know that they can receive the same price for dead soldiers as for live ones, “so why should they bother keeping them alive?”

Shachar added in his interview with Voice of Israel government radio, “We are in a country surrounded by enemies, and we shouldn’t give in to terrorist groups.”

Government envoy Ofer Dekel is expected to return to Israel by Monday evening with the report from Hizbullah detailing its efforts to obtain information about the fate of Air Force navigator Ron Arad, whose aircraft was shot down over Lebanon in 1986.

Sources said the report indicates that Arad died two years after his capture by Amal terrorists, who then handed him over to Hizbullah. He was eventually “sold” to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to intelligence reports, after which the trail went cold.

The prisoner swap deal with Hizbullah will not be signed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert until after he has inspected the report on Arad, according to officials in Jerusalem.