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Report: Shalit deal to be executed Friday

A prisoner exchange deal securing the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit will be executed this Friday, Saudi network al-Arabiya reported Sunday, quoting sources in the Hamas organization.

According to the report, 450 Palestinian prisoners will be released to the Gaza Strip and West Bank in exchange for Shalit's transfer to Egypt.

The al-Arabiya report added that the Hamas leadership from Damascus would meet with the Hamas leadership from Gaza in Cairo on Monday, to discuss the latest offer submitted by Israel.

Sources in Gaza told Ynet that significant progress had been made over the past few days in the talks for the prisoner exchange deal, and that the last obstacles – related to a number of prisoners from the leadership of Hamas' military wing – could be removed by Friday, the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

The sources added that should their estimates be realized, an announcement on the deal would be expected even sooner.

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Peres confirms 'real progress' in Shalit talks

"There is no doubt that real progress has been made on the issue of Gilad Shalit, but the details must be kept behind the scene," the president said upon return from a visit to Cairo.

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Es ist nicht unwahrscheinlich, das die Hamas vor den Wahlen irgendwann nächstes Jahr ihr Ansehen beim palästinensischen Volk durch einen Gefangenenaustausch noch weiter steigern will.
Netanjahu kommt das insoweit entgegen, das er zum einen durch die Freilassung einen großen Erfolg feiern wird und er zum anderen mit einem Sieg der Hamas einen Druck aus Amerika loswerden wird können.