HAMAS WANTS TO SWAP VIDEO TAPE FOR TERRORISTS

Senior Hamas official: Shalit alive (JPost)
Ahead of the much-publicized summit between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday afternoon that was due to focus, among other issues, on captured IDF solider Cpl. Gilad Shalit's release, a senior Hamas official said his group was ready to give Israel a videotape of the soldier if it agreed to release Palestinian women prisoners and other detainees.

Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau in Damascus, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that Shalit was alive.

He said his group would be willing to trade the videotape for the freedom of "Palestinian women and a considerable number of detainees." He did not give a specific figure.

Abu Marzuk said the demand was "modest in light of the high price Palestinian people have paid and the collective punishment they have faced by Israel following the capture of the solider."

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