Captured Soldier Kept On The Move By Hamas

May 13 2010

Israel

Hamas sources say those holding a captured Israeli soldier in Gaza are moving him twice a week, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports.

Cpl. Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas in a June 2006 cross-border raid from Gaza on a southern Israeli military base.

The Qassam Brigades fighters move their captive so often because they fear that Israel is planning a "selective military operation to free Shalit," sources told local Gaza media.

Earlier this week, Hamas detained several...

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