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Israeli-Hamas prisoner swap at risk
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Deal being brokered by German official hinges on which Palestinians convicted of armed attacks would be freed Israel and Hamas were tonight facing serious disagreements that could scupper a long-awaited prisoner exchange likely to see hundreds of Palestinians freed in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier. Palestinian sources said the German official mediating between the two sides had asked Israel to reconsider its objections to ...
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20 hours ago ago from The State of the Jews
Ultimately,the laws of war are an Israeli strategic asset. That's my take-away from a beautiful and heartbreaking description of war's moral complexity published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. Well worth the read: Five years ago, a particularly gruesome image made its way to our television screens from the war in Iraq. Four U.S. civilian contractors working in Fallujah were ambushed and killed by al Qaeda. Their bodies were ...
Related contentHamas calls for days to study exchange prisoners with Israel
3 hours ago ago from Italy Entertainment News
Yesterday - 14.38 By Nidal al-Mughrabi continue reading this story a German mediator has delivered to Hamas Israel s response on the exchange between hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and an Israeli soldier held in Gaza Strip, but the Islamic group has announced that it need a few days to consider the new proposal. A Hamas official, perhaps heralding a possible breakthrough in the negotiations, said the group will send a delegation to ...
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9 hours ago ago from Agora dialogue
Posted on December 24, 2009 Filed Under Middle East , Security | Leave a Comment By Khaled Abu Toameh - Jerusalem Post Hamas announced on Wednesday that it has received Israel's response to its demands for the release of IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit. A high-level delegation of Hamas leaders is scheduled to travel to Syria on Thursday for talks with the movement's leaders there about the Israeli response. Mahmoud ...
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17 hours ago ago from Middle East Reality Check
Reports that Egypt is constructing an American-designed metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip in an effort to block Gaza's smuggling tunnels, and has declared that the Rafah crossing will be closed to over 1,000 international Gaza Freedom marchers intending to enter Gaza at the end of the year, should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the history of USraeli-Egyptian collaboration since 1978. It is useful, however, to ...
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BBC News - Shalit mediator visits Gaza for talks on prisoner swap
14 hours ago ago from BBC
Israelis have hold demonstrations calling for the release of Sgt Shalit The German mediator trying to secure the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has visited Gaza, the Islamic movement Hamas says. The move comes amid speculation that efforts to agree a prisoner swap deal may be making progress. Israel's security cabinet met several times on the issue earlier this week, and the mediator is said to have taken ...
Related contentPostwar Gaza: Scars frozen, Mideast at an impasse
12 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Postwar Gaza: Scars frozen, Mideast at an impasse GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Gaza's scars have been frozen in place since Israel waged war a year ago to subdue Hamas and stop rockets from hitting its towns. Entire neighborhoods still lie in rubble, and traumatized residents can't rebuild their lives. A man who lost two daughters and his home can't visit his surviving 4-year-old girl in a Belgian hospital because Gaza's borders remain ...
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18 hours ago ago from TIME.com - World
SEARCH TIME.COM Full Archive Covers Videos Israel, Hamas Wrestle Over a Prisoner Swap By Aaron J. Klein / Tel Aviv Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 A picture taken on October 2, 2009 shows captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a video broadcast on an Israeli news channel. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty Share Although the likelihood remains that ...
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