Gilad Shalit

Gilad Shalit

Corporal Gilad Shalit was kidnapped near Kerem Shalom on the Gaza border. His abduction by Palestinian militant groups during that June 25 raid on an Israeli army outpost led Israel to launch a massive military offensive in the Gaza Strip. [more]

Corporal Gilad Shalit was kidnapped near Kerem Shalom on the Gaza border. His abduction by Palestinian militant groups during that June 25 raid on an Israeli army outpost led Israel to launch a massive military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

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Israeli stalling blocks Shalit deal: Hamas

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Israeli objections to releasing certain prisoners are blocking a swap deal in which an Israeli soldier captured three years would be freed, an official of the Palestinian movement Hamas said on Friday. The deal is supposed to see the exchange of hundreds of Palestinians, including 450 chosen by Hamas, for soldier Gilad Shalit. But negotiations are blocked on three main points, the Hamas official told the daily Al-Hayat in an interview published on Friday. "The negotiations on the Shalit deal face three obstacles including Israel's objection to 50 prisoners included in the list of 450" presented by Hamas, the official said. Israel is also ... Read Full Story

Hamas commander dies in tunnel collapse: medics

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A senior fighter from the armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement died on Wednesday in a tunnel collapse in the central Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medics and the armed group. "Yasser Sabri Radi, 37, a field commander in the Qassam Brigades from Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, was martyred on Wednesday morning while undertaking a jihad-related task," the group said in a statement. The statement did not specify the cause of death, but Palestinian medics said Radi died in a tunnel collapse. The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas which has ruled the Gaza Strip since June 2007, is believed ... Read Full Story

Israeli court upholds blackout on Shalit talks

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The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a government blackout on details of negotiations on a prisoner swap with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas for a captured soldier. The court rejected a demand from an Israeli group demanding that the government provide the names and criteria for Palestinian prisoners to be freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit, seized by Gaza militants in June 2006. The group opposes the release of any Palestinian convicted of involvement in deadly attacks against Israelis. The government says it needs to censor the details of its criteria in order to effectively carry out the negotiations with Hamas via a ... Read Full Story

Mediator to give Israeli response on prisoner swap

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A German mediator is to give Israel's response to Hamas on a prisoner swap as the two sides edge closer to a deal, a Palestinian official said on Monday. The official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, said Hamas leaders would meet the mediator in the Gaza Strip where he would relay Israel's response to the Islamist movement's latest proposal. The official, who is close to the talks, said the dispute centred on 70 prisoners whom Israel refused to free. Hamas drafted its final position during a meeting in Damascus last week, with the results passed on to Israel, he ... Read Full Story

US spy opposes Israel-Palestinian prisoner swap

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An American convicted of selling military secrets to Israel more than two decades ago is reportedly opposing a prisoner swap between the Jewish state and the militant Palestinian Hamas group. The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday that convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard says Israel should kill its Palestinian prisoners rather than release them. Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. federal prison, also says he'd refuse to be exchanged for "convicted murderers." The paper says Pollard made the remarks to ultranationalist activist Moshe Feiglin who visited him in the prison in Buttner, North Carolina. Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers are believed ... Read Full Story
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Israel Stresses Release Of Abducted Soldier
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Chief rabbi to world religious leaders: Help free Shalit - News
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Report: Egyptians saw Shalit alive | Jerusalem Post
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Bereaved brother: Israel should negotiate Shalit's release - Ne
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Demands to Free Prisoners
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PM talks with Peretz about freeing Cpl. Shalit | Jerusalem Post
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Gilad Shalit's father: Time not on our side - News from Israel,
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Olmert: We won't give in to extortion | Jerusalem Post
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Palestinian militants issue ultimatum to Israel | Reuters.com
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Gilad Shalit was captured in June 2006
Israelis take part in a protest calling for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Jerusalem in March. A deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit could go ahead within two weeks, an Israeli ...  
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Israeli Knesset Member Daniel Ben Simon Says Gilad Shalit Could Be...
Labor MK Daniel Ben Simon said Saturday that abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit could be free within the next two weeks. Shalit was abducted by Gaza militants in a cross-border raid in 2006 and has been held captive since. Hamas, the ...  
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Hamas agrees not to include Israeli Arabs in Shalit swap
Hamas has acceded to a demand from Israel that no Israeli Arab prisoners be released as part of the deal being negotiated to free abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, Channel 10 report...  
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Hamas Denies Reports of Shalit's Move to Egypt
Top political leader of the Hamas movement in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, has ruled out reports that the prisoner of war, Gilad Shalit, has been moved to Egypt as part of the efforts to reach a prisoner swap deal with Israel. In an interview with Qatar ...  
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Israeli MP sees Shalit deal 'within a week or two'
A deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit could go ahead within two weeks, an Israeli MP said on Saturday.In a rare public comment on the negotiations, which both Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas have kept under tight wraps, MP Daniel Ben Simon said an agreement was imminent.The deal could go ahead in the next "week or two," he told a cultural event in the southern city of...  
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Early on Sunday morning, 25 June 2006, Gilad Shalit was abducted by Palestinian militants who attacked an Israeli army post on the Israeli side of the southern Gaza Strip border after having crossed through an underground tunnel near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. During the morning attack, two IDF soldiers were killed and three others wounded, aside from Shalit, who himself suffered a broken left hand and a light shoulder wound after his tank was hit with an RPG.

Shalit’s captors issued a statement on Monday, 26 June 2006, offering information on Shalit if Israel agreed to release all female Palestinian prisoners and all Palestinian prisoners under the age of 18. The statement came from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of the Palestinian governing party Hamas), the Popular Resistance Committees (which includes members of Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas), and a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Islam.

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