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Thursday, January 4, 2018
Hamas: No prisoner exchange talks underway for bodies of fallen IDF soldiers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Hamas spokesman says no negotiations with Israel over a prisoner exchange can take place until Israel “fulfills its commitments” under the 2011 Shalit prisoner deal.
In the years since that deal, some of the over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released under its terms in an exchange for Hamas’s release of IDF corporal Gilad Shalit, have been re-arrested by Israeli security forces.
According to spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouk, in comments carried Thursday by Army Radio, Hamas demands the re-release of these prisoners before any talks can begin for the return to Israel of the bodies of two IDF soldiers, Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, who were killed in action during the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, as well as three Israeli civilians who entered Gaza in recent years.
The Times of Israel Community.