Hamas confirms: We consulted Hezbollah on Shalit deal
Hamas newspaper quotes top official as saying group interested in actualizing deal as soon as possible.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Gilad Shalit Hassan Nasrallah Hamas Israel newsA senior Hamas official confirmed on the group's official website on Thursday reports that a Hamas delegation had consulted with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on the issue of a possible prisoner exchange deal with Israel, Israel Radio reported.
The deal revolved around the release of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Gaza militants in 2006. Hamas has demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel in exchange for Shalit's freedom.
According to Israel Radio, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh's deputy, Ziad Zaza, told the Hamas newspaper Al Risalah that the organization is interested in actualizing a deal as soon as possible, and voiced hope that the recent efforts to achieve such a deal would end in success. He stressed that there had been recent progress in talks.
Earlier Thursday, the Al-Ayyam daily newspaper reported that a prisoner exchange deal hinges on a disagreement over 15 Palestinians.
Among the contentious prisoners mentioned in the report are Marwan Barghouti of Fatah; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine secretary general, Ahmad Saadat; Amana Muna, the convicted killer of Israeli teenager Ofir Nahum; and two other female prisoners who aided suicide bombers.
One of those women drove the attacker who exploded at a Jerusalem Sbarro to the restaurant, where he killed 15 people.
The other 10 controversial names are senior Hamas leaders.
Israel is waiting for Hamas' answer to the German mediator's proposal on the final prisoner exchange deal over kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. The Islamist group is expected to respond within the next few days.
The mediator met separately over the past few days with representatives of both sides.
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Both Iranian puppets, Hamas & Hezbollah are taking their orders from Iran
Obviously you don't have you facts correct, if you were to get them straight, you would know that hamas goes into those childrens houses, and launches rockets at Israeli civilians, children. Israel stood by and tried to get hamas to sies fire, however hamas decided to continue, and attack CIVILIAN targets, whereas Israel only attacks military targets, which is why we endangered our soldiers and sent them in by foot rather than sending cheap missiles aimed at civilians. Now you tell me, if we were really trying to kill civilians, do you think we would really send in our foot soldiers? Maybe it is time you get your facts straight before you go shooting your mouth off. Hamas not only aimed at Israeli civilians, but killed their own civilians by hiding in schools, hospitals and homes.
Next time you hear somethng, try listening with BOTH EARS Most of the casualties that were incurred in Gaza were because Hamas insisted on using their own civilians as human shields, they bragged about do so The used schools and mosques to conceal their weapons and fighters and as firing points Here's a video link, LISTEN and learn http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/03/hamas-mp-we-used-women-and-children-as-human-shields.html
AND both puppets took their marching orders from Iran
I despise people with views like yours. So you call every prisoner in israeli jails a child killer? hmmmmm last i recalled the Palestinians were the ones being butchered by the IDF, killing 1400 mostly civilians and A LOT of children considering over half of the Gaza population is below 18. Seems to me like the country who did all this killing with illegal use of weapons such as white phosphorus in one of the worlds most densely populated pieces of land is the animal. Your views are obviously very racist and uneducated.
Israel currently faces a very difficult decision, we can either return the many prisoners hamas is asking for, or we can deny, and possibly lose the chance to ever bring Gilad Shalit home. If we give back the hamas terrorist prisoners, we are are going to face trouble with them returning to hamas, and possibly killing more Israeli's in the future, not to mention how Israeli parents will feel, knowing that the animal who killed their child is not not only a free man in gaza, but a "hero". On the other hand, Gilad Shalit has been a prisinor in palestinian jail for over 3 years. In my opinion, it all comes back to, is it worth it, we may have Israeli's being killed in the future, all for one man, but this is not an old man in jail, Gilad Shalit is 24 years old, still has his whole life ahead of him. So finally I say, bring him home, lets get it over with already, the child needs to come home!
Please face what it is.