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Hamas rejects Red Cross request to see abducted soldier Gilad Shalit

By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents

A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, Osama Al-Mazini, on Thursday turned down a request by the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, who captured in a cross-border raid in June 2006.

Al-Mazini said that allowing a visit might lead Israel to Shalit. The request was made Wednesday by the director-general of the Red Cross, Angelo Gnaedinger, during a visit to Gaza.

Gnaedinger said Wednesday that Red Cross representatives might soon be allowed to visit Shalit - something Hamas has hitherto not allowed. He made the announcement following a meeting with Hamas' Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh.

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Also Thursday, Hamas denied that it had received a new Israeli offer aimed at securing Shalit's release.

Al-Mazini, who is in charge of prisoners' affairs for Hamas, was responding to a Haaretz report published earlier in the day, according to which Israel recently sent Hamas a new proposal Shalit's release.

However, no details of the proposal are known. In addition, European officials from more than one country recently began mediating between Israel and Hamas over Shalit, a senior Hamas official said Wednesday. He declined to specify which countries, but said that he was not referring to Norway, which recently announced that it was involved in the issue.

The official added that the chief European mediator, whom he declined to name, is working according to the same guidelines that a German intelligence official is using, in his efforts to mediate between Israel and Hezbollah over the two soldiers that Hezbollah kidnapped last summer.

Egypt, the official added, is also still playing an important role in the negotiations, since it is well-versed in all the details of the talks to date. However, the one-time chief mediator has recently lowered its profile.

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1.	Hamas announced it wont allow the Red Cross	20:57	\|	KUTW	06/09/07

2.	A FINE EXAMPLE....	23:07	\|	Brant	06/09/07

3.	Nonsense Argument: They can bring Shalit to Envoy`s place	23:30	\|	Rob	06/09/07

4.	Shameful paranoid behavior	23:32	\|	Lynn	06/09/07

5.	israel`s treachery is well known,and no doubt there will be	23:40	\|	lakshmi	06/09/07

6.	Respect	00:02	\|	EEM	07/09/07

7.	LAKSHMI: Give it a Rest	00:39	\|	Brant	07/09/07

8.	Red Cross asks to see Shalit	01:49	\|	Jacob	07/09/07

9.	To Rob	01:52	\|	Jacob	07/09/07

10.	did anyone REALLY think they would act like HUMAN BEINGS?	02:28	\|	JON FEIGENBAUM	07/09/07

11.	ALSO a good chance the boy is dead	02:32	\|	JON FEIGENBAUM	07/09/07

12.	Force Hamas to allow visit to Shalit	02:59	\|	*.. BEN JABO	07/09/07

13.	Red Cross and Hamas	03:07	\|	KT	07/09/07

14.	8Nik Miller,you sound demented! There is no way israel can try	04:10	\|	lakshmi	07/09/07

15.	12Ben Jabo,the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in israeli jails know	05:01	\|	lakshmi	07/09/07

16.	Poor Red Cross	05:07	\|	Avrum	07/09/07

17.	none of this is surprising	05:08	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	07/09/07

18.	#14 You`re wrong	05:32	\|	Joey	07/09/07

19.	#15 lakshmi - really don`t take you seriously	06:59	\|	* BEN JABO	07/09/07

20.	Lakshmi	12:17	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	07/09/07

21.	19Ben Jabo,20Margie of TA.BenJ. are you denying that there are	13:35	\|	lakshmi	07/09/07

22.	State of Israel& Land of Israel	19:24	\|	Eliezer	07/09/07

23.	#20 Lakshmi - you have a severe problem	03:10	\|	* BEN JABO	08/09/07

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