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BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'No deal' to free Israeli soldier - 0 views

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Israel Palestine Hamas Gilad Shalit Yuval Diskin Ofer Dekel

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  • Two senior Israeli envoys have returned from indirect talks with Hamas in Cairo without a deal on the release of captured soldier, Gilad Shalit.
  • The talks were part of a final push by outgoing Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to secure a deal before he leaves office.
  • The two envoys, Yuval Diskin, head of the Shin Bet security service, and negotiator Ofer Dekel, are due to brief ministers at a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
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  • Egypt has been brokering the indirect talks. Hamas are demanding the release of more than 400 of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
  • Reports from the talks say one of the issues dividing the sides was Israel's wish to deport some of these prisoners, fearing they would be a security risk if released to the West Bank. Hamas representatives have said the group rejects the deportation proposal on principle.
  • The outgoing prime ministers has also said he wanted to make Sgt Shalit's release a precondition for a wider ceasefire agreement with Hamas, under which Hamas wants the crossings into Gaza fully opened to allow rebuilding after the recent Israeli operation.
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Palestinian attack suspected after two Israeli policemen shot dead | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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Gilad Shalit Hamas Israel Ofer Dekel Palestine Yuval Diskin

shared by Argos Media on 16 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Palestinian attack suspected after two Israeli policemen shot dead • Prisoner-swap deadline on eve of PM's departure• Gazan militants captured 22-year-old three years ago Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 March 2009 01.42 GMT Article history Two Israeli policemen were shot dead in the West Bank yesterday in what Israeli police said they suspected was a Palestinian attack.No Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the shooting, which took place near the mainly agricultural settlement of Massuah, in an area of the West Bank close to the border with Jordan that is under Israeli security control. "The main suspicion points to a nationalistic motive," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.The attack came as the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, sent two senior negotiators to Cairo yesterday in a final attempt to secure the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Gazan militants nearly three years ago.
  • the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, sent two senior negotiators to Cairo yesterday in a final attempt to secure the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Gazan militants nearly three years ago.
  • He sent Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's domestic security agency, Shin Bet, and Ofer Dekel, a long-time negotiator and former security official, with a reported offer that would have seen the release of some but not all the prisoners Hamas has demanded be freed in return for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
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  • Reports suggest Hamas has demanded the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Of those , around 450 are considered most important and Israeli reports said the Israeli security officials opposed the release of some and wanted certain others released only if they were immediately deported to another country, probably Syria. Around 10,000 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails.
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