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| Report: Hamas to provide Shalit video |
| 2008-07-03 |
| Hamas has agreed to an Egyptian request to transfer a video tape and a letter from kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit in the coming days, as part of the renewal of talks on Shalit's release, the Cairo-based weekly Al Aharam Al Arabi reported over the weekend. The weekly, affiliated with the government mouthpiece Al Ahram, said Hamas had agreed to the move to provide a sign of life in order to move the talks ahead. The report gave no other details on whether the tape and letter had already been transfered to Israeli prisoner negotiator Ofer Dekel and the Shalit family. Citing Egyptian diplomatic sources involved in the negotiations, the paper also said West Bank leader Marwan Barghouti, jailed in Israel for five life sentences plus 40 years, is on the list of prisoners Hamas is demanding to release as part of the deal. |
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