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== Background ==
== Background ==
On the morning of June 24, 2007, Israeli Defence Forces abducted two Palestinian civilians, [[Muamar family detention incident|Osama and Mustafa Muamar]] from their home in the Gaza Strip. The next day, in possible retaliation,<ref name="muamarcook">{{cite news | first=Jonathan | last=Cook | authorlink=Jonathan Cook| pages= | title=KIDNAPPED BY ISRAEL: The British Media And The Invasion Of Gaza | date=June 30, 2006 | publisher=Media Lens | url=http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060630_kidnapped_by_israel.php |accessdate=2006-08-01}}</ref>
On the morning of June 24, 2006, Israeli Defence Forces abducted two Palestinian civilians, [[Muamar family detention incident|Osama and Mustafa Muamar]] from their home in the Gaza Strip. The next day, in possible retaliation,<ref name="muamarcook">{{cite news | first=Jonathan | last=Cook | authorlink=Jonathan Cook| pages= | title=KIDNAPPED BY ISRAEL: The British Media And The Invasion Of Gaza | date=June 30, 2006 | publisher=Media Lens | url=http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060630_kidnapped_by_israel.php |accessdate=2006-08-01}}</ref>
[[Gilad Shalit]] was captured<ref name="usatoday">{{cite news| url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-25-israeli-palestinian_N.htm | work=USA Today | title=Hamas releases audio of captured Israeli | date=25 June 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/germany-israel-gilad-shalit |location=London |work=The Guardian | first=Rory | last=McCarthy | title=Germany in talks to help secure release of Israeli soldier Shalit | date=30 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.cnn.com/2007-08-24/world/hamas.soldier_1_hamas-fighters-hamas-militants-palestinian-prisoners?_s=PM:WORLD |publisher=CNN | title=UK demands release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit | date=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4961627/Hamas-puts-captured-Israeli-soldier-on-video-tape.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Dina | last=Kraft | title=Hamas puts captured Israeli soldier on video tape | date=9 March 2009}}</ref> by Palestinian militants during a [[2006 Hamas cross-border raid|cross-border raid]] carried out on 25 June 2006.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bronner|first=Ethan|title=Netanyahu Announces Deal to Free Shalit|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/world/middleeast/possible-deal-near-to-free-captive-israeli-soldier.html|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=11 October 2011}}</ref> At the time, he was a 19-year-old tank gunner in the Israel Defense Forces.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barker|first=Anne|title=Israel signs deal to bring captured soldier home|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-12/israel-signs-deal-for-soldiers-release/3544310|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[ABC News]]|date=12 October 2011}}</ref> His captors held him in a secret location in the [[Gaza Strip]] for a total of 1,934 days leading up to the prisoner swap deal.<ref>{{cite news|title=Israeli soldier finally to head home|url=http://www.montrealgazette.com/Israeli+soldier+finally+head+home/5535506/story.html|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]]|date=12 October 2011|agency=[[Agence France-Presse{{!}}AFP]]}}</ref> While in captivity, Hamas refused to allow the [[International Red Cross]] access to Shalit, and the only indications that he was still alive were an audio tape, a video recording, and three letters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hostage to Hamas: Gilad Shalit's five-year ordeal|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20111012-hostage-to-hamas-gilad-shalit-five-year-ordeal-israel-palestinians-gaza|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[France24]]|date=12 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Time of Israel-Hamas prisoner swap not yet final'|url=http://main.omanobserver.om/node/68536|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[Oman Daily Observer]]|date=15 October 2011|agency=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur{{!}}DPA]]|location=Tel Aviv}}</ref>
[[Gilad Shalit]] was captured<ref name="usatoday">{{cite news| url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-25-israeli-palestinian_N.htm | work=USA Today | title=Hamas releases audio of captured Israeli | date=25 June 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/germany-israel-gilad-shalit |location=London |work=The Guardian | first=Rory | last=McCarthy | title=Germany in talks to help secure release of Israeli soldier Shalit | date=30 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.cnn.com/2007-08-24/world/hamas.soldier_1_hamas-fighters-hamas-militants-palestinian-prisoners?_s=PM:WORLD |publisher=CNN | title=UK demands release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit | date=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4961627/Hamas-puts-captured-Israeli-soldier-on-video-tape.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Dina | last=Kraft | title=Hamas puts captured Israeli soldier on video tape | date=9 March 2009}}</ref> by Palestinian militants during a [[2006 Hamas cross-border raid|cross-border raid]] carried out on 25 June 2006.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bronner|first=Ethan|title=Netanyahu Announces Deal to Free Shalit|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/world/middleeast/possible-deal-near-to-free-captive-israeli-soldier.html|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=11 October 2011}}</ref> At the time, he was a 19-year-old tank gunner in the Israel Defense Forces.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barker|first=Anne|title=Israel signs deal to bring captured soldier home|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-12/israel-signs-deal-for-soldiers-release/3544310|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[ABC News]]|date=12 October 2011}}</ref> His captors held him in a secret location in the [[Gaza Strip]] for a total of 1,934 days leading up to the prisoner swap deal.<ref>{{cite news|title=Israeli soldier finally to head home|url=http://www.montrealgazette.com/Israeli+soldier+finally+head+home/5535506/story.html|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]]|date=12 October 2011|agency=[[Agence France-Presse{{!}}AFP]]}}</ref> While in captivity, Hamas refused to allow the [[International Red Cross]] access to Shalit, and the only indications that he was still alive were an audio tape, a video recording, and three letters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hostage to Hamas: Gilad Shalit's five-year ordeal|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20111012-hostage-to-hamas-gilad-shalit-five-year-ordeal-israel-palestinians-gaza|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[France24]]|date=12 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Time of Israel-Hamas prisoner swap not yet final'|url=http://main.omanobserver.om/node/68536|accessdate=16 October 2011|newspaper=[[Oman Daily Observer]]|date=15 October 2011|agency=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur{{!}}DPA]]|location=Tel Aviv}}</ref>


Revision as of 21:42, 19 October 2011

After more than five years in Hamas captivity IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was released and returned to Israel, while over a thousand Palestinian and Arab-Israeli prisoners are being released in exchange, 18 October 2011

The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (Hebrew: עסקת שליט; Arabic: صفقة شاليط) followed an agreement between Israel and Hamas to release French-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian, Arab-Israeli and Syrian prisoners. 280 of these served life sentences for planning and perpetrating various terror attacks against Israeli targets.[1][2] The agreement came five years and four months after Palestinian militants captured Shalit in southern Israel along the Gaza border. The deal, brokered by German and Egyptian mediators, was signed in Egypt on 11 October 2011. Its first phase was executed on 18 October 2011, with Israel releasing 477 Palestinian prisoners and Hamas transferring Shalit to Cairo.[3]

The agreement is one of the largest prisoner exchange agreements Israel has ever made, given that as part of the agreement Israel agreed to release 1,027 prisoners for one captured Israeli soldier – the highest price Israel has ever paid for a single soldier.[4]

Background

On the morning of June 24, 2006, Israeli Defence Forces abducted two Palestinian civilians, Osama and Mustafa Muamar from their home in the Gaza Strip. The next day, in possible retaliation,[5] Gilad Shalit was captured[6][7][8][9] by Palestinian militants during a cross-border raid carried out on 25 June 2006.[10] At the time, he was a 19-year-old tank gunner in the Israel Defense Forces.[11] His captors held him in a secret location in the Gaza Strip for a total of 1,934 days leading up to the prisoner swap deal.[12] While in captivity, Hamas refused to allow the International Red Cross access to Shalit, and the only indications that he was still alive were an audio tape, a video recording, and three letters.[13][14]

Rescue attempt

Main article: 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict

Israeli forces entered Khan Yunis on 28 June 2006 to search for Shalit. According to an Israeli embassy spokesman, “Israel did everything it could in exhausting all diplomatic options and gave Mahmoud Abbas the opportunity to return the abducted Israeli… This operation can be terminated immediately, conditioned on the release of Gilad Shalit.”[15] On the same day, four Israeli Air Force aircraft flew over Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace in Latakia, as an IDF spokesperson said that Israel views the Syrian leadership as a sponsor of Hamas.[16] The operation did not succeed in finding Shalit.

Negotiations for release

File:Guilad Schalit - Papiers Français.png
Shalit's French citizenship papers

Netanyahu responded to a pilgrimage march, called by Shalit's father for his release, by saying he was willing to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit, but that top Hamas leaders would not be among those released.[17] Shalit's father had previously blamed the US for blocking talks on his son's release.[18]

In early 2011, Egyptian-moderated negotiations continued between the Israeli government and Hamas, represented by Ahmed Jabari. Haaretz reported that Israel proposed a prisoner swap, and threatened that if Hamas rejected the proposal, no swap would occur. Hamas responded by warning that an end to negotiations would lead to Shalit's "disappearance." Negotiations were hung up over disagreements between the two parties regarding Israel's unwillingness to release all of the so-called "senior prisoners" into the West Bank—a demand Hamas rejects—and regarding the particulars of releasing prisoners who were leaders of Hamas and other organizations.[19]

Prisoner exchange deal

Gilad Shalit at IDF base Amitai near Kerem Shalom, on the phone with his parents, 18 October 2011.
Shalit, soon after arriving Kerem Shalom, Israel., 18 October 2011.
Shalit meets his father for the first time in five years, 18 October 2011.

On 11 October 2011, the Pan-Arabist Al Arabiya network reported that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement on Gilad Shalit. Netanyahu convened a special Cabinet meeting to approve the Shalit deal. The deal was brokered by German and Egyptian mediators and signed in Cairo.[20] It stipulated the release of Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Israeli-held security prisoners, 280 of these served life sentences for planning and perpetrating various terror attacks against Israeli targets.[1][2] Gerald Steinberg, political science professor at Bar Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor, said that the goal of Israel allowing the Egyptians to take an active part was "to help stabilize [Cairo], so they play a constructive role in the region. It's to show to other countries" as well, that Egypt is a "counterweight" to Turkey, with Israel showing preference to Egypt.[21]

Shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu announced that an agreement had been reached, the Israeli Cabinet convened in an emergency session to vote on the deal. Twenty-six ministers voted in favor of the deal while three voted against it – Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon, and Minister of National Infrastructure Uzi Landau.[22] Ya'alon (Likud) argued that the prisoners would "go back to terrorism" and that they would destabilize the security situation in the West Bank.[23] Landau (Yisrael Beiteinu) warned that the deal would be "a huge victory for terror" and that it would encourage more abductions of Israelis.[24]

On 15 October the Israeli Justice Ministry published the list of the 477 prisoners that Israel intends to release as part of the first phase of the agreement.

Prisoner exchange

The agreement was implemented in two stages:

  • In the first stage, Gilad Shalit was transferred from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and from there to Israel; concurrently, Israel released 477 prisoners.[25]
  • In the second stage, to take place two months later, approximately another 550 prisoners will be released.[26]

Of the first 450, 131 will be released to Gaza, while 110 will be returned to their homes in the West Bank. 6 Israeli Palestinians will also be released. The remaining 203 prisoners will be deported, with 40 barred from Israel and the Palestinian territories.[27]

On 18 October, the first group of Palestinian prisoners were transported to Egypt. From there, they will go to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. On the same day, Shalit was taken from Gaza to Egypt and from there to Israel. Shalit was given a medical evaluation and was said to be in good health, although pale and thin. Shalit changed into a military uniform and traveled by helicopter to the Tel Nof Airbase, where he met with his family and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[28][29]

On the day of the release of Gilad Shalit, immediately after he would be transferred to the Red Cross, Israel would release 27 prisoners (most of whom would be allowed to return to East Jerusalem and the West Bank and two of them would be deported abroad). Afterwards the rest of the prisoners would be transferred in buses to the West Bank. Those to be expelled to Gaza or abroad, would be transferred first to Cairo.

Prominent prisoners to be released as part of the deal

Further information: [[:List of Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners exchanged for Gilad Shalit]]

Among the 1,027 prisoners expected to be released there are about 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks[1] who were sentenced to life imprisonment, including:

  • Walid Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Hadi Anajas (36 life sentences) – took part in the execution of the Café Moment bombing (2002), the Hebrew University bombing (2002) and the Rishon LeZion bombing (2002).[30]
  • Nasir Sami Abd al-Razzaq Ali al-Nasser Yataima (29 life sentences) – convicted of planning the Passover massacre (2002) in which 30 civilians were murdered and 140 were wounded.[30]
  • Maedh Waal Taleb Abu Sharakh (19 life sentences), Majdi Muhammad Ahmed Amr (19 life sentences) and Fadi Muhammad Ibrahim al-Jaaba[30] (18 life sentences) – responsible for the attack on bus No. 37 in Haifa in 2002.
  • Tamimi Aref Ahmad Ahlam (16 life sentences) – Assisted in the execution of the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing (2001).[30][31]
  • Abd al-Hadi Rafa Ghanim (16 life sentences) – the surviving perpetrator of the Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack in which Ghneim seized the steering wheel of a crowded Egged commuter bus line No. 405 and managed to pull the bus into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim. 16 civilians were murdered in the attack.[32]
  • Muhammad Waal Muhammad Douglas (15 life sentences) – took part in the execution of the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem (2001).[33]
  • Muhammad Taher Mahmud al-Qaram (15 life sentences) – directly involved in the planning and execution of a bus attack in Haifa in which 15 Israelis were murdered.[34]
  • Ahmed Mustafa Saleh Hamed al-Najar (7 life sentences) – led a militant squad that murdered 3 Israelis in shooting attacks.[30]
  • Yihia Ibrahim Hasan Al-Sinwar (4 life sentences) – took part in the kidnapping and murder of Nachshon Wachsman. Founder of the Hamas security apparatus in Gaza. His brother organized the abduction of Gilad Shalit in 2006.[32]
  • Abd-Al-Aziz Muhammad Amar (4 life sentences) – took part in the execution of the Café Hillel bombing (2003).[34]
  • Ibrahim Sulaim Mahmud Shammasina (3 life sentences) – took part in the murder of the boys Ronen Kramni and Lior Tuboul, the taxi driver Rafi Doron and the soldier Yehushua Friedberg.
  • Amir Sa'ud Salih Abu Sarhan (3 life sentences) – murdered three Israelis with a knife in 1990.[34]
  • Mahmud Muhammad Ahmed Atwan (3 life sentences), Musa Daud Muhammad Akari (3 life sentences) and Majid Hassan Rajab Abu Qatish (3 life sentences) – militants that murdered the Israeli policeman Nissim Toledano in 1992.[35]
  • Muhammad Yussuf Hassan al-Sharatha (3 life sentences) – head of the militant squad that kidnapped and murdered the Israeli soldiers Ilan Saadon and Avi Sasportas during the first intifada.[32]
  • Abd al-Aziz Yussuf Mustafa Salehi (1 life sentence) – participant in the 2000 Ramallah lynching who was iconically photographed displaying his blood-stained hands to the Palestinian mob after having beaten an Israeli soldier to death.[30]
  • Bassam Ibrahim Abd al-Qader Abu Asneina (1 life sentence) and Riyadh Zakariya Khalil Asayla (1 life sentences) – murdered the yeshiva student Chaim Kerman.[33]
  • Fahed Sabri Barhan al-Shaludi (1 life sentence) – took part in the kidnapping and murder of the Israeli soldier Yaron Chen.[33]
  • Fuad Muhammad Abdulhadi Amrin (1 life sentence) – murdered 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl Helena Rapp in 1992.[36]
  • Jihad Muhammad Shaker Yaghmur (1 life sentence) – took part in the murder of Nachshon Waxman.[32]
  • Mona Jaud Awana (1 life sentence) – lured over the Internet the 16-year-old Israeli high school student Ofir Rahum, pretending to be a young American tourist, managed to drive him to a remote area in the outskirts of Ramallah where three Palestinian gunmen showed up and shot Rahum at close range.[31]
  • Muhammad Abdul-Rahman Muhammad Zakut (1 life sentence) – Tel Aviv construction worker who stabbed three Israelis, murdering two, on the holiday of Purim, 21 March 1989.[37][38]
  • Tarek Ahmed Abd al-Karim Hasayin (1 life sentence) – carried out the shooting attack on Highway 6 in June 2003, in which the 7-year-old girl Noam Leibowitz was murdered.[33]
  • Yussuf Dhib Hamed Abu Aadi (1 life sentence) – Convicted of stabbing Israeli soldier Nir Kahana in 2005.[39]
  • Sh'hadeh Muhammad Hussein Sana'a (1 life sentence) – participated in the King George Street bombing by leading the suicide bomber to his destination.[40]
  • Abdallah Nasser Mahmud Arar (1 life sentence) – Member of the Hamas cell responsible for kidnapping and murdering Israeli businessman Sasson Nuriel in 2005.[41][42]
  • Ahmed Jibril Othman al-Takruri (1 life sentence) – Carried out firebomb attack on a bus in Jericho, in which a mother and her three children, and a soldier who tried to rescue them, were murdered.
  • Alaa al-Din Radha al-Bazyan (1 life sentence) – Convicted of perpetrating sniper attacks and belonging to a terrorist group.[43]
  • Ali Muhammad Ali al-Qadhi (1 life sentence) – Member of a Hamas cell responsible for kidnapping and murdering Israeli businessman Sasson Nuriel in 2005.[41][42]

Public reactions

Israel

According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, 79% of the Israeli people support the exchange,[44] with 14% of the population opposed.

Almagor, an Israeli organization representing victims of terrorism, criticized the Shalit deal as "a victory for terror and Hamas."[45] According to its figures, terrorists freed in past prisoner exchanges cost 180 Israelis their lives.[46] A man whose parents and three siblings were killed in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing vandalized the memorial to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv out of anger that two prisoners involved in the Sbarro attack were included in the swap deal.[47]

Commentator Nahum Barnea of Yedioth Aharonoth said that under the circumstances, considering that the alternative may have been to let Shalit die in captivity, the deal was unavoidable, despite its attendant security risks.[48]

Palestinian territories

Reactions to the swap deal in the Gaza Strip were mixed, with some convinced Hamas could have achieved a better deal from its perspective.[49] Shawan Jabrin, general director of Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq, said that the deportation of some prisoners to other countries "goes against the Geneva Conventions" and is part of an Israeli scheme to drive Palestinians out of the area.[50]

Huge crowds turned out to welcome the released prisoners in Gaza, chanting demands for militants to seize more Israeli soldiers.[51]

Official reactions

Involved parties

Israel:

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the deal struck "the right balance" between Israeli security risks and the imperative of returning Shalit "to his family and people."[52] In a televised address from Tel Nof Airbase, Netanyahu stated, "Today we are all united in joy and in pain."[28]
  • President Shimon Peres thanked Netanyahu for what he called the prime minister's "brave decision" and said it was a time to embrace the families who lost their loved ones in terrorist attacks.[53]
  • Opposition leader Tzipi Livni said she respected the government's decision and sent her blessings to the Shalit family and to all of Israel.[54]
  • Israeli chief rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger released a joint statement welcoming the deal.[55]

Palestinian territories:

  • Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas expressed support for the deal and said efforts would continue to secure the release of the remaining prisoners being held in Israel.[56] Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki questioned the timing of the swap deal, implying it may have been intended to marginalize the role of the Palestinian Authority and Abbas.[57]
  • Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal hailed the deal as a victory for the Palestinian people.[58]
  • A masked spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who identified himself as "Abu Obaida", said in a televised statement in Gaza that "We will not give up until prisons are shut down. A chapter has ended but there are other chapters."[28]
Supranational
International
  • United States -
    • US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed the release of Shalit and, saying he was imprisoned for "far too long".[61]
    • White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stated that "We are pleased by the reports that Mr. Shalit will be home soon with his family. The president, as you know, has called many times for his release, and that his release is long overdue."[62]
  • United Kingdom – British Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the agreement and expressed a hope that Shalit would be reunited with his family "as soon as possible."[63]
  • France – French President Nicolas Sarkozy warmly welcomed the agreement to free Shalit and thanked Egypt for its role in the negotiations.[64]
  • Germany – Germany, which played a leading role in the prisoner swap negotiations, expressed its support for the deal.[65]
  • Russia – The Russian Foreign Ministry published a statement saying, "The exchange gives reasons to expect that the parties will mange to make progress in the settlement of other sensitive issues".[66]
  • Turkey – Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu welcomed Gilad's release and stated that Turkey was happy to see Gilad Shalit going free.[67] Turkey along with Egypt and Germany had played a key role in Shalit's release.
  • Iran – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast stated that Tehran congratulates the Palestinian nation on its "victory" in the release of Palestinian prisoners.[68]

See also

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