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Fast Forward Shalit Prepares for Simchat Torah at Home
A day after returning to his home in Mitzpe Hila after five years in Hamas captivity, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will mark the Simchat Torah holiday at home with his family on Wednesday night. With the onset of the holiday, the number of onlookers on the streets of Mitzpe Hila lessened. However, a police checkpoint…
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Fast Forward Deported Freed Terrorists Arrive Overseas
Forty-two released Palestinian prisoners arrived in Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Qatar on Tuesday after being set free as part of a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. The prisoners are considered the most notorious of 1,027 Palestinians and Israeli Arabs being released by Israel in exchange for abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit,…
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Fast Forward GOP Candidates Spar Over Shalit Deal
The Shalit deal made a surprise entrance into the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, with a Twitter user asking: Would the U.S. negotiation for a solder as Israel just did? “I would have a policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists. We have to lay that principle down first”, Herman Cain declared, gaining much…
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Fast Forward Hamas Leader Calls Shalit Deal a Turning Point
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called the release of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday a strategic turning point in Hamas’s struggle against Israel. “This is a strategic turning point in our struggle against the Zionist enemy,” Haniyeh said at a celebration in Gaza on…
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Fast Forward Shalit Walks With Mother on First Morning
Israel Defense Forces medical officers arrived at the home of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Wednesday, a day after the former Hamas captive was freed in a prisoner exchange deal. Shalit was spotted taking a stroll outside his Mitzpe Hila home, accompanied by his mother Aviva and military metal health officials. Speaking to reporters on…
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Fast Forward Journalists Slam Egyptian Interview of Shalit
Israeli officials harshly criticized an Egyptian television interview with soldier Gilad Shalit minutes after Hamas militants freed him in a prisoner swap Tuesday, saying the questioning was inappropriate and insensitive. In the interview aired on Egyptian state television, a gaunt, sallow and uncomfortable looking Shalit appeared to struggle to speak at times, and his breathing…
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News Noam Shalit: ‘I Just Hugged Him’
Noam Shalit, father of the recently released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, spoke to the press near his home in Mitzpe Hila on Tuesday night, saying that his son had finally returned home after a long and exhausting battle. Gilad Shalit returned to Israel for the first time on Tuesday since he was abducted by Hamas…
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Fast Forward Tony Blair Calls Shalit Deal Opening to Peace
The envoy for the Middle East Quartet of peacemakers, Tony Blair, on Tuesday welcomed Gilad Shalit?s release from Hamas captivity, saying that it was a ?moment of great joy? for the soldier and his family as well as for the families of the Palestinian prisoners released as part of an agreement between Israel and Hamas….
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