Israeli soldier Shalit returns home in Israel
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit talks on the phone with his family in this photo provided by by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on October 18, 2011. Shalit was released by Hamas after five years in captivity in a swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. UPI/GPO/HO
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Added October 18, 2011 with 26 photos
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were released in a swap for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who has been held since 2006 in Gaza.
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Added October 18, 2011 with 14 photos
After five years in captivity by Hamas, Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit is released in a swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
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Added January 21, 2011 with 10 photos
Scores of Palestinians tried to block the entry of French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie's convoy into Gaza Friday, officials said.
A Palestinian mob surrounded the convoy as it headed for Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, Maariv said.
Protesters held posters calling for Alliot-Marie to leave, some of them threw shoes at her vehicle and one briefly jumped on top of it, Agenzia Giornalistica Italia reported.
Hamas police eventually dispersed the crowd and allowed the convoy through, Haaretz said.
The Palestinian protesters, mainly relatives of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel, were angry about statements Alliot-Marie made at a meeting with the parents of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Thursday, Maariv said.
The French foreign minister told Aviva and Noam Shalit in Jerusalem their son "has been held hostage for over four years," Maariv said. She said Shalit continues to be held in isolation and France is doing everything possible to secure his release.
Shalit has dual Israeli and French citizenship.
The soldier was on duty near the Gaza border in June 2006 when he was abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip. He has been held incommunicado ever since.
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Israelis demonstration for the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit in Jerusalem.
Shalit was abducted by Palestinian militants from Gaza in a cross border raid in June 2006. The parents of Shalit are staying in a protest tent outside Olmert's resident, vowing to stay until the end of Olmert's term.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A reputed terrorist released in the deal that freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has been arrested and could return to prison, the Israeli military said.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The European Union says the Palestinian Authority's new Fatah-Hamas unity government will not change the EU's ongoing financial assistance to Palestinians.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit sent a letter of thanks Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy for helping win his release from his Palestinian abductors.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Israel Sunday prepared to release 550 Palestinian prisoners in the second stage of the exchange deal that secured the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Israel's Supreme Court decided Friday to allow a second round of Palestinian prisoner releases in exchange for Gilad Shalit despite legal activists' objections.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Israeli prison officials listed 114 Palestinian detainees to be freed in the second phase of a prisoner swap, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Wednesday.
HAIFA, Israel, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has undergone surgery to have seven pieces of shrapnel removed from his elbow and forearm, Ynetnews reported.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Amid continuing concern that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is inclined to order military action against Iran's nuclear program, a key Defense Ministry chief says, "Iran is out central threat."
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- An Israeli group opposed to the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap says it will publicly detail crimes committed by prisoners involved in the exchange.
CAIRO, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Israel has agreed to a prisoner exchange for the release of Ouda Tarabin, a Bedouin Israeli convicted of espionage in Egypt, an Egyptian official says.
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