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| Hamas Rejects Prisoner Swap Deal: Israel Should Free Rearrested Inmates |
| 2015-07-19 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] The Prime Minister of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, government, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... has dismissed the possibility of new negotiations over prisoner swap with the Zionist entity, unless Tel Aviv releases dozens of Paleostinian prisoners it has rejugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! after a previous exchange deal. During a speech marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Haniyeh said that Israel has rearrested at least 54 inmates freed in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. "We have told all the mediators who have mobilized to discuss a new exchange that there won't be any negotiations before the release of all those Israel detained from among the Shalit deal group." "There will be no talks without their unconditional release," Haniyeh added. The comments came after Israel claimed earlier this month that two Israelis are being held in Gazoo Strip. But Hamas has not reacted to these allegations. Israeli authorities claimed that Avraham Mengistu, an Æthiopian Israeli, along with another one are being held in the enclave. Mengistu is said to have disappeared after he "independently" entered Gazoo on September 7, 2014, two weeks after the end of latest Israeli war on Gazoo last summer. The second man, whose name has not been released, is a Bedouin Arab. Israeli officials have not specified how long he has been in Gazoo or how he got there. |
| Posted by:Fred |