Seize Israeli soldiers to swap for Palestinian
prisoners: Hamas
Friday October 07, 2011 09:21:36 PM,
IANS
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Gaza: A senior official
of the Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza Friday called on Palestinian
militants to seize Israeli soldiers and exchange them with
Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
The popular, political, media and diplomatic efforts inside and
outside "can never be an alternative to the military efforts to
rescue our prisoners from the oppressive occupation's prisons,"
said Ahmad Bahar, a Gaza-based Hamas leader and deputy speaker of
the Palestinian Legislative Council, in a press statement.
"We should be tireless of making every possible effort to seize
Zionist soldiers and exchange them through prisoners swap deals,"
Bahar said.
In June 2006, Hamas militants and two other minor armed groups
seized the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid
southeast of the Gaza Strip. Shalit's captors asked for the
release of 1,000 prisoners in exchange for him, Xinhua reported.
However, the mediation of Egypt and Germany had so far failed to
finalize a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel. Both sides
traded accusations that the other was hindering the deal.
Around 6,000 Palestinian and Arab prisoners have been holding a
gradual hunger strike in all the 25 Israeli jails for 10 days,
protesting tightened measures imposed by the Israeli Prisons
Authorities.
Bahar called on the Arab League and its secretary general as well
as international rights organizations "to play a more important
role to activate the prisoners' question and help release the
Palestinian prisoners".
"It's unreasonable that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
visited Shalit's family but ignored thousands of Palestinian
prisoners in Israeli jails," Bahar said.
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