Gilad Shalit, held largely incommunicado in the Gaza Strip for more than five years, has been told that he will be freed as part of a prisoner swap deal, a Palestinian militant leader said today, Erev Yom Tov.
“Of course, we informed Shalit yesterday about reaching a deal on releasing him,” Abu Attaya, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza, told the German Press-Agency dpa.
The PRC is one of the three groups holding Shalit.
Abu Attaya did not say how Shalit reacted.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cabinet voted early this morning to approve the prisoner swap deal that will see Shalit return to Israel.
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Prayers for Gilad Shalit in these crucial hours and days. The fear of loss and sense of gain dunamic is intense.
B”H
hopefully there not hurding and hiting him hashem yerachaim
Shalit has been a prisoner of these people without consciences for 5 years: what do you suppose they have been doing to him during this time? These Moslems certainly have not given him a peaceful five-year rest! My heart goes out to his family.
There is no question that we should continue to daven for him to have a refuas hanefesh and refuas haguf, until we hear otherwise (and the Shalits will be entitled to their privacy, we don’t need details).