Gilad Shalit, who has been held hostage by militants in Gaza for two years.
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who has been held hostage by militants in Gaza for two years.
CNN: Truce takes effect between Israel and militants in Gaza
But Israel stopped the EU operation after Hamas seized an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in June 2006.
She was among more than 1, 000 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Israel still wants to link a full reopening of the crossings to the release of its kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit.
The Egyptian journalist who interviewed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit just after Hamas freed him has defended herself against Israeli criticism.
Despite all this, I am pleased that Gilad Shalit has been reunited with his family, as have many Palestinians, including Omar.
We are pleased that Gilad Shalit has been reunited with his family.
Gilad Shalit and for the continuation of the terror war against Israel.
It is clear that we all hope that the day when Gilad Shalit returns to his family will come as soon as possible.
CNN: Olmert blasts 'damaging' reports on kidnapped Israeli soldier
Israel's government also hopes to wrest the return of a kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit, as part of a post-war package of understandings negotiated through Egypt.
ECONOMIST: Israelis begin to ask whether the war in Gaza was worth it
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier taken hostage, has not been freed.
Gilad Shalit was feared to be gravely ill, perhaps even dead.
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The only exception is, of course, the issue of the Israeli serviceman Gilad Shalit, who has been held hostage now by Hamas for all too long.
Reports have again begun to circulate that Hamas may free an Israeli corporal, Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Hamas in Gaza for three years.
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But he also took charge of the detention of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Gaza-based militants in a cross-border raid in 2006.
The men were released in October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal that led to the freeing by Hamas of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
BBC: Two Palestinians held in Israeli jail end hunger strike
In 2006 he was alleged by Israeli then-Vice Premier Shimon Peres to have ordered the kidnapping into Gaza of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has not been released.
Gilad Shalit was seized in June 2006 by Palestinian militants, including members of the Hamas group which runs Gaza, in an raid into Israel that also left two Israeli soldiers dead.
Gilad Shalit, held for two years, was seized in June 2006 in a raid into Israel by militants of Hamas, the radical Islamic group that Israel and the United States consider a terrorist organization.
Two of the detainees, Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi, were released in October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal that led to the freeing by Hamas of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
These include the Army of Islam, responsible for the kidnapping of the BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston and IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit, and al Qaeda itself, which has established a presence in the territory.
Mark Urban will give his take on what the wider impact will be of the exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday's Newsnight, 18 October 2011, at 2230 on BBC Two.
Things could perhaps improve if an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, whom Hamas has held captive in Gaza for more than three years, is freed in a prisoner exchange that might, according to latest reports, see 450 Palestinian prisoners also released.
In October 2011, Israel freed more than 1, 000 Palestinian prisoners -- including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis -- in exchange for one person: Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held by Hamas for more than five years.
Not for the first time, it was reported that an agreement was near that would see the release of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit , captured by the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas three years ago, in exchange for several hundred Palestinian prisoners.
Israel's new government continues to link the ending of the blockade not only to the removal of Hamas as Gaza's government but also to the release of Gilad Shalit, an abducted Israeli soldier who has spent nearly three years in captivity in Gaza.
While Mr Abbas's people were busy trying to spin their way out of the Goldstone imbroglio, Hamas gleefully celebrated the release of the 20 women prisoners it had secured in exchange for a videotape of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier seized by Hamas over three years ago.
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"We will stay as long as Gilad, who has been held for nearly 1, 000 days, is not freed, " Noam Shalit told Israeli army radio.
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