HAMAS BLOCKS RED CROSS FROM SEEING KIDNAPPED SOLDIER

Hamas Rejects Red Cross Request to See Abducted Soldier Gilad Shalit - Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, and Jack Khoury
A senior Hamas official in Gaza, Osama Al-Mazini, on Thursday turned down a request by the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a cross-border raid in June 2006. The request was made Wednesday by the director-general of the Red Cross, Angelo Gnaedinger, during a visit to Gaza. (Ha'aretz)