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Israeli raid called off after Facebook slip (AP)

March 3rd, 2010 Arab News No comments

AP – The Israeli military says a planned raid on a West Bank village was called off after an Israeli soldier disclosed its details online.
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West Bank stab suspect ’suicidal’

February 11th, 2010 Arab News No comments

The Israeli authorities say a Palestinian man accused of fatally stabbing an Israeli soldier was ‘tired of life’.
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Hamas: Talks over Shalit stopped

February 3rd, 2010 Arab News No comments

Hamas politician Mahmoud Zahar tells the BBC that talks to agree a prisoner swap for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have collapsed.
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Talks to free Israeli soldier halted: Hamas (AFP)

February 2nd, 2010 Arab News No comments

A pedestrian walks past a mural painted by a Hamas artist of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2009, in the northern Gaza Strip Jabalia refugee camp. Negotiations between Hamas and Israel over a prisoner swap involving captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have stopped, a senior official in the Islamist movement has said.(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)AFP – Negotiations between Hamas and Israel over a prisoner swap involving captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have stopped, a senior official in the Islamist movement said in an interview aired Tuesday.

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Hamas chief hits out at Israel over stalled prisoner swap (AFP)

January 23rd, 2010 Arab News 2 comments

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal addresses a rally in Damascus. Meshaal said Friday that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will not be freed unless Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.(AFP/Louai Beshara)AFP – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said Friday that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will not be freed unless Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

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Pro-settlement soldier dismissed

January 19th, 2010 Arab News No comments

An Israeli soldier has been dismissed from the military after protesting against the evacuation of Jewish settlement outposts.
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Israel gives response to Hamas prisoner swap offer (AP)

December 22nd, 2009 Arab News No comments

Noam Schalit, father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit stands next to cardboard cut-outs of his son, during a protest calling for Gilad's release, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top ministers on Monday debated whether to approve an emotionally charged deal to trade 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held by Gaza militants for more than three years. At a protest tent outside the prime minister's official residence, dozens of demonstrators carried cardboard cutouts of the captured soldier, 23-year-old Sgt. Gilad Schalit, and urged Cabinet ministers to wrap up an agreement. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)AP – Israel has relayed its response to a proposed prisoner swap with Hamas militants, including a list of Palestinian prisoners it wants deported if the deal to trade hundreds of them for a single captive Israeli soldier goes through, Israel Radio reported Tuesday.

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Parents of captured Israeli soldier plead for his release (AFP)

December 21st, 2009 Arab News No comments

The family of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, father Noam (R), his brother Yoel (L) and mother Aviva (C), leave the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv in November 2009. Shalit's parents made an impassioned appeal on Sunday for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal with his captors, saying time was running out.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)AFP – The parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit made an impassioned appeal on Sunday for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal with his captors, saying time was running out.

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Hamas will not free Shalit without prisoner deal (AFP)

December 14th, 2009 Arab News No comments

AFP – The Islamist Hamas movement said on Monday that an Israeli soldier held in Gaza for more than three years will not see “the light of day” until Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

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Egypt says Israel stalling on prisoner swap (AFP)

December 6th, 2009 Arab News No comments

A Gilad Shalit sticker is seen near a protest tent outside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem in November 2009. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accused Israel on Sunday of stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas for Shalit by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners.(AFP/File/Jonathan Nackstrand)AFP – Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accused Israel on Sunday of stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas for a captured Israeli soldier by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners.

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