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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Hamas official says deal for soldiers’ bodies will be ‘Gilad Shalit 2’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas official Muhammad Abu Askar says Hamas’s demands to return the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul will resemble “Gilad Shalit 2.”
Speaking at a rally in the Gaza Strip, he turns to Israel and says “Are they dead or are they alive?”
Israel has declared both Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin as killed in action.
In 2011, Israel agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit. The exchange of the bodies of Shaul and Goldin was said to be discussed as part of the Cairo negotiations, but recent reports indicate that those terms, along with Hamas’s demands to build a port and airport, are likely to be discussed at a later date.
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