Landmark Pact: Israel, Hamas in prisoner swap deal
Palestinian sources said Israel had agreed to release around 1,000 prisoners in exchange for the soldier.
“We have concluded arduous negotiations with Hamas to release Gilad Shalit. He will be coming home in the next few days,” the premier said in a nationally televised address.
Palestinian sources said Israel had agreed to release around 1,000 prisoners in exchange for the soldier, in a deal which would be implemented later this week.
Sources from Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al Qassam Brigades, confirmed the deal, saying the exchange would take place “within a week.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 12th, 2011.
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