(Times Online UK) – Israel and the Palestinians are preparing a prisoner exchanger that could lead to the release of an Israeli soldier who has been held for more than three years in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of Palestinian militants will be released by Israel.

There has been a media frenzy since reports that Gilad Schalit, the young Israeli corporal captured by Hamas in a cross-border raid in June 2006, could be free as early as Friday, when Palestinians mark their Eid al-Adha festival. The feast is a traditional period for amnesties and mutual gestures. Hamas’s official newspaper said the exchange could go ahead in the middle of next week.

via Prisoner exchange could see Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit released this week – Times Online.

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