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Report: Prisoner swap deal for Shalit to be set in next 2 weeks
By Haaretz Service
Tags: prisoner swap, Israel 

A prisoner exchange deal for missing Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit will be resolved over the next two weeks, according to a report on Monday in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam.

The report said that in the first stage of the deal, Israel would release 350 prisoners. After Shalit is released from Egyptian to Israeli custody, said the report, another 100 Palestinians will be released.

The report said the deal would include a cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Shalit family last week that that there had been no breakthrough in the quest for his release.

Government officials told Haaretz that Olmert had recently been examining options to relax the criteria for freeing Palestinian prisoners with "blood on their hands," and that cabinet secretary Oved Yehezkel has established a ministerial forum to discuss the issue with security officials and submit recommendations to the prime minister

Officials involved in the Shalit affair have the feeling that there is a need for greater pragmatism on Israel's part on the issue of prisoners and that the criteria might be changed in such a way to be more suitable to the existing reality," a government official said.

Defense officials say that no senior Hamas prisoners could be released without changing the criteria that prohibit the release of prisoners with "blood on their hands." Government sources said they hoped the forum's recommendations would signal Hamas to move ahead on a prisoner swap.

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      1.   Bad karma 18:39  |  William 31/12/07
      2.   Israel has making arrests every night for this swap 19:07  |  Natallie Durson 31/12/07
      3.   I doubt this report is true 19:13  |  Joey 31/12/07
      4.   If it`s true, than good! Here`s to hoping 19:22  |  Jacob Blues 31/12/07
      5.   How many times have we read identical stories? 19:26  |  Clickfool 31/12/07
      6.   prisoner swap. 19:31  |  ljf-canada 31/12/07
      7.   ljf-canada 19:41  |  alan 31/12/07
      8.   Releasing prisoners with blood on their hands 19:47  |  Boaz 31/12/07
      9.   Natallie Dumson: and what was the Barghouti trial? 19:55  |  Richard S 31/12/07
      10.   PLEASE ANSWER 20:14  |  TOBIA 31/12/07
      11.   Prisoners 20:23  |  Chicago Arab 31/12/07
      12.   Another idiotic move made by the Olmert government 20:35  |  Scott Havsy 31/12/07
      13.   suitable to the existing reality 20:50  |  Jon 31/12/07
      14.   surely Isreal can be more generous like before 21:05  |  dav zee 31/12/07
      15.   Olmert is a traitor 21:23  |  Len 31/12/07
      16.   Yes Natallie, it`s really cool 21:34  |  GPS 31/12/07
      17.   Let us End this Ordeal , Enough is Enough! 22:19  |  Mark 31/12/07
      18.   This isn`t a deal 23:33  |  Mohammed Goldberg 31/12/07
      19.   1 Israeli Soldier = 450 Palestinian Terrorists 00:22  |  Dan 01/01/08
      20.   Natzillie Duhhhrson: The Pals keep trying to kill us every night 00:25  |  Dan 01/01/08
      21.   # 2 Still, Fatmeh, they all must be put to death before release.. 00:41  |  Misha 01/01/08
      22.   Natalie 01:01  |  Marc 01/01/08
      23.   reasons for such swaps 01:01  |  Mike 01/01/08
      24.   Clickfool & Natalie 01:14  |  Yitzchak 01/01/08
      25.   Prisiner Release 02:32  |  Jack 01/01/08
      26.   I doubt this will ever happen.... 06:08  |  Silvienne 01/01/08
      27.   So I guess now Hamas can finally claim a victory 06:32  |  Conroy 01/01/08
      28.   # 11,Chicago Arab lectures us Israel on democracy-pure hypocricy 08:02  |  Haham me Bat Yam 01/01/08
      29.   #28 Bat Man 17:35  |  Chicago Arab 02/01/08
      30.   chicago arb 22:55  |  danny 11/01/08
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