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Report: Captive IDF soldier Shalit wounded in Gaza air strikes
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Gaza, IDF, Israel News 

Army Radio reported Monday that captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit had been wounded in one of the IAF raids on the Gaza Strip, quoting an unnamed Hamas source as saying that the organization intended to safeguard him.

It said Hamas sources had confirmed an Egyptian television report on that Shalit, kidnapped in Israeli territory outside the Strip in June, 2006 by Hamas and other militant Palestinian groups, was injured.

But there was no word on his condition, or how he was wounded.
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Vice Premier Haim Ramon told the radio Monday that while he did not know if the report were accurate, he was "convinced that from Hamas' standpoint, Shalit is a bargaining chip which in the end will bring about the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

"Despite that," Ramon added. "We are all concerned for his situation."

Unnamed Israeli officials were quogted as saying that it was possible that the report represented an attempt to use psychological warfare on Israel.

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