“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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