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Israel sets conditions for Gaza truce
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert sets conditions for a truce with Hamas, calling for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. In his talks with Egypt's intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, Olmert linked any truce to "progress in the negotiations for the release of Gilad Shalit," captured by Palestinian fighters in a 2006 cross-border raid, an Israeli official said on Monday. Suleiman was in occupied Palestine to hold talks on a truce agreement between the Israeli regime and Hamas. Hamas has demanded that Israel free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit but Egyptian-brokered negotiations on the details of an exchange have made little headway. Posted by: Fred 2008-05-14 |
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