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The New Diplomats: Hamas Prisoners Now Negotiate on Shalit Swap
by Hana Levi Julian
by Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas terrorist leaders serving sentences in Israeli jails will be the ones to decide which fellow prisoners will be short-listed for freedom in exchange for the release of kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
Hamas legislator Ayman Dawarma said in an interview published Friday in the Persian Gulf newspaper Al-Halij that the jailed terrorists have been authorized to negotiate directly with Israeli officials on the prisoner swap deal.
The talks are at the moment in the hands of the Hamas prisoners, said Dawarme, adding that senior Israeli officials have already met several times with the terrorist convicts.
Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha confirmed in Gaza earlier in the week that the meetings had taken place, according to Voice of Israel government radio.
By Friday, the radio station was reporting that Hamas deputy political bureau head Moussa Abu Marzouk said only Egypt has the authority to negotiate for Shalits release. He denied reports of talks by prisoners or anyone else on the matter.
The issue of how many and which jailed terrorists will be freed in exchange for the kidnapped soldiers, as well as when and how, has been batted about with the Palestinian Authority for months. Each time, promised imminent deals fell through.
Egyptian negotiators have had to contend with trying to secure a deal to free Shalit while also negotiating one failed truce after another between the Hamas and Fatah factions.
The French Connection
Shalits family published an open letter to their son Friday in the French newspaper Le Figaro. The Shalits, along with the families of IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, abducted last year by Hizbullah terrorists, are hoping to pressure Portugal and France to help save their sons.
The families flew first to Portugal this week, where they met with the Vice President of the Lisbon and the Portugal Committee of the Red Cross.
The three families are set to attend a rally in Paris for the release of their sons on Sunday, to be followed Monday by meetings with President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Noam Shalits letter to Gilad noted that the captive is being held as a prisoner of war, but is not being allowed the conventional rights given to prisoners of war according to international law and according to the religion of Islam.
Shalit was seized in Israel during a cross-border raid by a team of three terrorist groups on June 25 2006. Four other soldiers were wounded and two were killed in the attack, which occurred near the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
Hamas legislator Ayman Dawarma said in an interview published Friday in the Persian Gulf newspaper Al-Halij that the jailed terrorists have been authorized to negotiate directly with Israeli officials on the prisoner swap deal.
The talks are at the moment in the hands of the Hamas prisoners, said Dawarme, adding that senior Israeli officials have already met several times with the terrorist convicts.
Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha confirmed in Gaza earlier in the week that the meetings had taken place, according to Voice of Israel government radio.
By Friday, the radio station was reporting that Hamas deputy political bureau head Moussa Abu Marzouk said only Egypt has the authority to negotiate for Shalits release. He denied reports of talks by prisoners or anyone else on the matter.
The issue of how many and which jailed terrorists will be freed in exchange for the kidnapped soldiers, as well as when and how, has been batted about with the Palestinian Authority for months. Each time, promised imminent deals fell through.
Egyptian negotiators have had to contend with trying to secure a deal to free Shalit while also negotiating one failed truce after another between the Hamas and Fatah factions.
The French Connection
Shalits family published an open letter to their son Friday in the French newspaper Le Figaro. The Shalits, along with the families of IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, abducted last year by Hizbullah terrorists, are hoping to pressure Portugal and France to help save their sons.
The families flew first to Portugal this week, where they met with the Vice President of the Lisbon and the Portugal Committee of the Red Cross.
The three families are set to attend a rally in Paris for the release of their sons on Sunday, to be followed Monday by meetings with President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Noam Shalits letter to Gilad noted that the captive is being held as a prisoner of war, but is not being allowed the conventional rights given to prisoners of war according to international law and according to the religion of Islam.
Shalit was seized in Israel during a cross-border raid by a team of three terrorist groups on June 25 2006. Four other soldiers were wounded and two were killed in the attack, which occurred near the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
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