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Sources: Hamas has raised price of Shalit deal in wake of Kuntar release
By Avi Issacharoff , Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Hamas, Gilad Shalit 

Negotiators involved in the talks over kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit say Israel will have to change its criteria regarding the Palestinian prisoners it is willing to release.

These sources say Hamas is insisting Israel agree to release prisoners "with blood on their hands."

They said Hamas has raised its demands, arguing that Israel has already released Samir Kuntar, who was convicted of killing four Israelis in a 1979 terror attack in Nahariya, and two prisoners of the same ilk, Abu Ali Yatta and Sa'id al-Ataba, as a gesture to the Palestinian Authority. Now Hamas wants Israel to agree to this principle in order to renew the talks.
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Kuntar was freed as part of this past summer's prisoner swap with the Lebanese Shi'ite organization Hezbollah. In exchange for Kuntar and four other Lebanese prisoners, Israel received the bodies of two kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who were captured in a Hezbollah raid that ignited the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

The negotiators in the Shalit affair said that if Israel relaxes its criteria, indirect talks in Cairo between Hamas and Israel will most likely begin.

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      1.   Big Surprise 03:34  |  Tod Zuckerman 13/10/08
      2.   Hamas says jump, Barack asks how high, and how else may i help 03:52  |  Pathetic 13/10/08
      3.   kuntar is evidence 03:52  |  Arie 13/10/08
      4.   Is Gilad even alive? 03:57  |  Arie 13/10/08
      5.   Release All The Prisoners, Get Shalit Back and Napalm Gaza 04:41  |  Eli 13/10/08
      6.   Changing demands as a result of the Kuntar release? 05:07  |  SDHD 13/10/08
      7.   There`s a big surprise... 05:54  |  BBSNews 13/10/08
      8.   The Kuntar deal was a special case 06:00  |  MARK KLEIN, M.D. 13/10/08
      9.   another missed opportunity 06:19  |  tony harris 13/10/08
      10.   Seen it coming 06:57  |  cold pragmatist 13/10/08
      11.   Policies of weakness aren`t helping you, israel 06:57  |  Jon 13/10/08
      12.   Everyone Knew Kadima, Livni,& Barak made a bad deal with Hamas 07:03  |  Shepherd 13/10/08
      13.   Why to we continue to play this useless game? 07:06  |  Esther 13/10/08
      14.   Well I never Mark Klein... 07:13  |  BBSNews 13/10/08
      15.   come on livini turn up the heat on hamas 07:22  |  vik 13/10/08
      16.   Uh Tony, about the Golan Heights... 07:33  |  BBSNews 13/10/08
      17.   Cancel the ceasefire, put on some pressure 08:02  |  Ilan 13/10/08
      18.   EXACTLY Why Jewish Law Opposes This 08:17  |  Yishai Kohen 13/10/08
      19.   Well I never Mark Klein... - 2nd try 08:24  |  BBSNews 13/10/08
      20.   There you go again Olmert....... 08:34  |  Dagma 13/10/08
      21.   Poor Shalit, a victim of Olmert`s serial mistakes 08:51  |  S 13/10/08
      22.   IDF is responsible for that 09:01  |  paulo2005 13/10/08
      23.   The trade put Shalit in danger 09:18  |  Gregor 13/10/08
      24.   here is the deal hamas 09:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/10/08
      25.   #15, S 09:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/10/08
      26.   Yishai #18... 09:35  |  Esther 13/10/08
      27.   #13 Esther 09:43  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/10/08
      28.   Here is the real deal hammas 09:49  |  Uzi 13/10/08
      29.   Hamas doesn`t need a Shalit deal. Israel does. 10:43  |  Natallie Durson 13/10/08
      30.   hostages 10:43  |  Raphael 13/10/08
      31.   Cipora Julianna Kohn #24 -and here is the response 10:46  |  haniyeh 13/10/08
      32.   Why should not apply to Hamas what applies to Hezbollah...??? 11:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 13/10/08
      33.   make a deal now 11:30  |  Zevi Aharon 13/10/08
      34.   Weak leadership 11:32  |  Roni Bar On 13/10/08
      35.   still in THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE 11:49  |  victor hardman 13/10/08
      36.   Cipora #27 12:12  |  Esther 13/10/08
      37.   Esther #26 12:17  |  Yishai Kohen 13/10/08
      38.   I hate to say it, but : "I told you so" !!!!!! 12:52  |  Benjamina 13/10/08
      39.   As I recall 13:10  |  H 13/10/08
      40.   Yishai #37 13:12  |  Esther 13/10/08
      41.   Esther #40 14:23  |  Yishai Kohen 13/10/08
      42.   Dino you are a waste of bandwidth 15:38  |  Joe Frazier 13/10/08
      43.   It`s OK Esther - Yishai Is Only Doing What is Programmed 16:03  |  B`Galil 13/10/08
      44.   SSG Gilad Shalit May Have To Be Sacrificed 16:06  |  Jeff Northridge 13/10/08
      45.   Agree to hamas demands 16:13  |  sabra 13/10/08
      46.   Nat durson 16:18  |  sabra 13/10/08
      47.   release all the prisones hams wants 16:21  |  sabra 13/10/08
      48.   # 42 Joe Frazier 16:46  |  Swiss (Dino) 13/10/08
      49.   Yishai betrays himself... 17:12  |  BBSNews 13/10/08
      50.   this is what happens when... 17:23  |  Harriet 13/10/08
      51.   Hamas has raised the price 17:52  |  steve gure 13/10/08
      52.   POW Gilad will return after war`s end 17:59  |  Lou Medel 13/10/08
      53.   B`Galil #43... yes you are right... 18:09  |  Esther 13/10/08
      54.   #48 neutral swiss clocks on for israel 18:30  |  odles 13/10/08
      55.   another gift to the enemy from the fool, olmert. 18:51  |  dante 13/10/08
      56.   Uhhh, Harriet? Bibi himself accepted the change... 19:20  |  BBSNews 13/10/08
      57.   Uhhh, BB-total BS about Palestinian Charter 20:04  |  SDHD 13/10/08
      58.   Typical, typical 20:27  |  Walter 13/10/08
      59.   to 56. please provide 20:57  |  Norman 13/10/08
      60.   I`m so sorry Israel 21:10  |  athiest zionist 13/10/08
      61.   #31, hanieh 22:11  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/10/08
      62.   #29, Durson 22:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/10/08
      63.   #36, Esther 22:28  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/10/08
      64.   #32 name me one Israeli with "blood on his hands" that... 22:58  |  McQueen 13/10/08
      65.   Swiss (Dino) here your words again 2nd try 23:10  |  David Israel 13/10/08
      66.   Israel should raise the price hamas has to pay ?? 23:45  |  Bill 13/10/08
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      68.   #65, David Israel, eyes of a hawk 00:48  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/10/08
      69.   # 65 David, do you really have to keep on embarrassing....... 00:58  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/10/08
      70.   Cipora #63 01:09  |  Esther 14/10/08
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