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Israeli PM's Office: Deal Yet To Be Reached In Prisoner Exchange Negotiations With Hamas 78 days ago
(RTTNews) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Monday dismissed earlier media reports which suggested that the Jewish nation was close to reaching a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas--the radical Islamic group that governs the Gaza Strip, stressing that a prisoner-exchange deal that would secure the freedom of an Israeli soldier abducted by Palestine militants in 2006 is yet to be finalized.
"During the recent period, many pieces of information originating abroad and in the foreign media have been published; they are unauthorized, and some of them are intentionally false," Israeli media quoted Netanyahu's office as saying in the statement.
"The efforts over Shalit's release are continuing all the time, away from media's gaze, and the Prime Minister has no intention of referring to the subject further," the statement added.
The statement came as representatives of Hamas and Syria were in Cairo for Egyptian-mediated talks aimed at securing the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid in June 2006. Recently, Israel had released 20 Palestinian women prisoners in exchange for a videotape confirming Shalit was still alive.
Earlier media reports suggested that Hamas is demanding the release of some 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails in exchange for freeing Shalit. It is understood that earlier negotiations were deadlocked over the names of some 70 prisoners in the list of detainees Hamas wanted released in exchange for Shalit's freedom.
However, officials knowledgeable of the talks said on condition of anonymity on Monday that the negotiating teams are close to agreeing on a compromise list provided by the negotiators. They indicated that the first part of the deal under consideration requires Hamas to hand over Shalit to Egypt, as Israel releases between 350 and 450 prisoners. It would be followed with the release of some 650 more prisoners when the freed soldier is being transferred to Israel.
Israel is currently holding about 10,000 Palestinians as prisoners on various charges. Previous Egyptian-mediated negotiations between Israeli officials and Hamas militants on a prisoner exchange scheme have ended dead-locked after the two sides failed to agree on the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for the release of Shalit.
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